“I have not skill
From such a sharp and waspish word as "No"
To pluck the sting.”
Act I, sc. 1.
Philip van Artevelde (1834)
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English playwright and poet 1800–1886Related quotes
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3
“The train of history makes sharp turns and those who are not skilled riders fall off the train.”
As quoted in Dorothy Healey, California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1993), p. 81.
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Variant: "When the train of history makes a sharp turn, said Lenin, the passengers who do not have a good grip on their seats are thrown off." Whittaker Chambers, The Revolt of the Intellectuals, TIME magazine, January 6, 1941.
“Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience.”
Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, 1880
"Words".
Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses (1858)
“959. Bees that have Honey in their Mouths, have Stings in their Tails.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)