Famous quotes containing the word what:
“What were they like? What mark
Can signify their charm?
They never saw the dark;
Rigid, they never knew alarm.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“If what you mean by the word “matter” be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there is such a thing or no, since it no way concerns us; and I do not see the advantage there is in disputing about what we know not what, and we know not why.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)