Pearls Quotes - Page 3
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Samuel Butler, Hudibras (fict.name.) (1835). “Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash”, p.311
Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon
Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.181, University of Chicago Press
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55
Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.
Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.287
The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.
Kevin Brockmeier (2006). “The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage
Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.379