Spit

Famous quotes containing the word spit:

    Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die?
    Basil: I don’t know.
    Zorba: What’s the use of all your damn books? If they don’t tell you that, what the hell do they tell you?
    Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can’t answer questions like yours.
    I spit on their agony.
    Michael Cacoyannis (b. 1922)

    If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can’t deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
    Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

    If you had but looked big and spit at him, he’d have run.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)