Famous quotes containing the word cobweb:
“The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Something is very gently,
invisibly, silently,
pulling at me a thread
or net of threads
finer than cobweb and as
elastic.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Fearless—the cobweb swings from the ceiling—
Indolent Housewife—in Daisies—lain!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)