Famous quotes containing the word heels:
“He is dead and gone, lady,
He is dead and gone,
At his head a grass-green turf,
At his heels a stone.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure:
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
—William Congreve (1670–1729)
“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)