“My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.”
Source: As You Like It
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours.”
Rafael Sabatini book Scaramouche
Book 1, Chapter 9
Source: Scaramouche
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965) English children's writer
The Welsh Harp
More Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1917)
“Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.”
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) Scottish Reformed theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 95.
“Like you, an alien in a land unknown,
I learn to pity woes so like my own.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Aeneis, Book I, lines 889–890.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“My soul to-day
Is far away
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.”
Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) American artist
Drifting.
“I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.”
Charlie Sheen (1965) American film and television actor
On TMZ, February 28 2011
Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (1807–1867) British songwriter, composer, poet and author
"The Bay of Dublin", line 1; p. 124.
Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)
“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
Letter to Robert Bridges (13 October 1886)
Letters, etc
“I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.”
Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954–1990) American guitarist, songwriter and recording artist
As quoted in Guitar World, September 1988