Tyrants

Famous quotes containing the word tyrants:

    “Never durst poet touch a pen to write
    Until his ink were tempered with love’s sighs.
    O then his lines would ravish savage ears,
    And plant in tyrants mild humility.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I am a humble suitor to your virtues;
    For pity is the virtue of the law,
    And none but tyrants use it cruelly.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
    Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
    A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
    And offers for short life, eternal liberty.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)