Famous quotes containing the words put off and/or put:
“They work, and age, and put off men
By being unattractive, or too shy,
Or having morals anyhow, none give in:
Some of them go quite rigid with disgust
At anything but marriage....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“... no gentleman lies, on any occasion, with unmixed pleasure. He feels, rather, as if he had put on rags.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)