Famous quotes containing the word sick:
“I was so sick and faint, so overcome at the brutality of this fiendish sport, that I hardly heard the shouts of Bravo! bravo! and the fanfaronade of trumpets.... I do not know which astonished me the most, the strikingly curious, brilliant coup doeil, the dexterity of the men, the intrepidity of the animals, the miserable unfair play, or the pleasure of the spectators.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)
“How can you describe her?
When your gaze falls
on one of her parts,
like a sick cow fallen
in mud,
it cannot escape.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
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