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Yew Quotes

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

Kuan Yew, I can never trust you as a politician.

Tunku Abdul Rahman
Yew, Never Trust, Politician

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

Matthew Arnold
Rose, Yew, Quiet
Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.236, Delphi Classics

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

Richard Neutra
People, Way, Eyewitnesses

Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

Chris French
Intelligence, Eyewitnesses, Testimony

I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, "If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia." And he was right, because we were just going backwards.

Bob Hawke
White, Australia, Yew
Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

J. K. Rowling
Needs, Noses, Eyewitnesses

Reptilian green the wrinkled throat, Green as a bough of yew the beard; He bent his head, and so I smote

Yvor Winters
Yew, Green, Beard
Yvor Winters (1960). “Collected poems”

My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.

William Blake
Love, Air, Yew
William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.413, Univ of California Press

For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.

Thomas Campbell
Rose, Yew, Cypresses

All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.

George Crabbe
Hollies, Moss, Yew

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