Beg

Famous quotes containing the word beg:

“I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We are in danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“I beg to assure you that I have never written you, or spoken to you, in greater kindness or feeling than now, nor with a fuller purpose to sustain you, so far as in my most anxious judgement, I consistently can. But you must act.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

““I beg your pardon?” said Alice.
“It isn’t respectable to beg,” said the King.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)