Famous quotes containing the words string quartet, soldier and/or string:
“The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.”
—Jeffrey Tate (b. 1943)
“When the soldier is hit by a cannon-ball, rags are as becoming as purple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The string quartet plays for itself,
gently, gently, sleeves and waxy bows.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)