Stalk

Famous quotes containing the word stalk:

    List Lady be not coy, and be not cosen’d
    With that same vaunted name Virginity,
    Beauty is natures coyn, must not be hoorded,
    But must be current, and the good thereof
    Consists in mutual and partak’n bliss,
    Unsavoury in th’injoyment of it self
    If you let slip time, like a neglected rose
    It withers on the stalk with languish’t head.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    I sometimes wonder whether, in the still, sleepless hours of the night, the consciences of ... professional gossips do not stalk them. I myself believe in a final reckoning, when we shall be held accountable for our misdeeds. Do they? If so, they have cause to worry over many scoops that brought them a day’s dubious laurels and perhaps destroyed someone’s peace forever.
    Mary Pickford (1893–1979)

    I stalk about her door
    Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks
    Staying for waftage.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)