Beset

Famous quotes containing the word beset:

    “The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
    While the world’s tide is bearing me along;
    Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
    Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

    “Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)