Written Laurence Marks

Famous quotes containing the words written, laurence and/or marks:

    What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    We sing, but oh the clay is vile
    Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
    But let the world dream otherwise,
    We wear the mask!
    —Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

    I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience—it also marks the time, which is four o’clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)