"Agley" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nodded. "The best laid schemes o' mice and men gang oft agley," he quoted in a thrilling ...
— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs
... [Greek: hubris] he takes it upon himself to wield the avenging bolts of Jove, but finds that Jove rejects his assistance. He errs disastrously in his judgment, like any short-sighted mortal, and his work goes all agley. But when the end comes it is not depressing. We see no longer a revolting fratricide and the painful sacrifice of virtue to the meanest of passions, but the verdict of the gods ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas |
