Famous quotes containing the word wide:
“The Americans ... have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moments reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (18741965)
“It was a wide and moony grin
Together peaceful and obscene;”
—Howard Nemerov (b. 1920)
“Romeo. Courage, man, the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio. No, tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but tis enough, twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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