Famous quotes containing the words talent, contest and/or high:
“The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The contest ends at midnight tonight
But you can submit again, and again.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch’s high estate;”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)