Famous quotes containing the word cobweb:
“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)
“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)
“Fearless—the cobweb swings from the ceiling—
Indolent Housewife—in Daisies—lain!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)