Triple Crown Line

Famous quotes containing the words triple, crown and/or line:

    “The triple pillar of the world transformed
    Into a strumpet’s fool.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “‘Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball,
    The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,
    The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,
    ...
    Not all these, laid in bed majestical,
    Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave
    Who with a body filled and vacant mind
    Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I said: “A line will take us hours maybe;
    Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
    Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)