Famous quotes containing the words species and/or thrive:
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)