Dragging Tone

Famous quotes containing the words dragging and/or tone:

“When I had reached my term, I looked like a rat dragging a stolen egg.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)