Quotes with stately

  • A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

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  • Samuel Johnson A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bayard Taylor Stately Pines, But few more years around the promontory Your chant will meet the thunders of the sea.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Virginia Woolf Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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