Falter

Famous quotes containing the word falter:

“To the questions of the officiously meddling police Falter replied absently and tersely; but, when he finally grew tired of this pestering, he pointed out that, having accidentally solved “the riddle of the universe,” he had yielded to artful exhortation and shared that solution with his inquisitive interlocutor, whereupon the latter had died of astonishment.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“A snare is Love,
a shame,
who are maimed with Love,
totter and falter and stare,
lost in a world
defamed.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)