Famous quotes containing the word short:
“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”
—John Jay Chapman (18621933)
“And were an epitaph to be my story
Id have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I had a lovers quarrel with the world.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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