Wrought

Famous quotes containing the word wrought:

“The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Down goeth the grass, soon wrought to withered hay;
Ay me alas, ay me alas, that beauty needs must yield
And princes pass, as grass doth fade away.”
—Thomas Proctor (fl. C. 1578)

“Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.”
—Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)