Famous quotes containing the word carried:
“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“I went back to my work, but now without enthusiasm. I had looked through an open door that I was not willing to see shut upon me. I began to reflect upon life rather seriously for a girl of twelve or thirteen. What was I here for? What could I make of myself? Must I submit to be carried along with the current, and do just what everybody else did?”
—Lucy Larcom (18241893)
“But there is nothing unmixt in this world; and some of the gravest of our divines have carried it so far as to affirm, that enjoyment itself was attended even with a sighand that the greatest they knew of, terminated in a general way, in little better than a convulsion.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)