Double Sword

Famous quotes containing the words double and/or sword:

    “...the shiny-cheeked merchant bankers from London with eighties striped blue ties and white collars and double-barreled names and double chins and double-breasted suits, who said “ears” when they meant “yes” and “hice” when they meant “house” and “school” when they meant “Eton”...”
    —John le Carré (b. 1931)

    “She sings of a sword so white,
    so luminous, that its own light
    alone must slay;
    she sings of a sword, a sword, a sword,
    and I creep away.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)