Famous quotes containing the words unknown, dives and/or lazarus:
“I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Still on Israel’s head forlorn,
Every nation heaps its scorn.”
—Emma Lazarus (1849–1887)