Silver Laurel Leaf

Famous quotes containing the words silver, laurel and/or leaf:

    ‘Guess now who holds thee?’—‘Death,’ I said. But,
    there,
    The silver answer rang, . . . ‘Not Death, but Love.’
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    The strongest poison ever known
    Came from Caesar’s laurel crown.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else’s.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)