Famous quotes containing the word wherefore:
“I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth,
forgone all custom of exercise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)