Put Off

Famous quotes containing the word put:

    Then we shall rust in shade, or shine in strife,
    And fluctuate ‘twixt blind hopes and blind despairs,
    And fancy that we put forth all our life,
    And never know how with the soul it fares.
    Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    By all those, who are not much acquainted with him, he was considered infinitely below his level; he put no price upon himself, and consequently went at an undervalue; for the world is complaisant or dupe enough, to give every man the price he sets upon himself, provided it be not insolently and overbearingly demanded. It turns upon the manner of asking.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)