Famous quotes containing the words siege of, siege, deep, bottom and/or august:
“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“And so you have found out that secret—one of the deep secrets of Life—that all, that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others?”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wrecks,
A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon,
Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,
Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,
All scattered in the bottom of the sea.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)