Famous quotes containing the words trembling hand, trembling, hand and/or perfect:
“Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease,
Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please;
Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share,
Go, look within, and ask if peace be there:
If peace be his—that drooping weary sire,
Of theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire,
Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand
Turns on the wretched hearth th’ expiring brand.”
—George Crabbe (1754–1832)
“He set the jug down slowly at his feet
With trembling care, knowing that most things break;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)
“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second- hand diamonds than none at all.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Don’t you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)