Famous quotes containing the word portion:
“They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.”
—Ernest Christopher Dowson (18671900)
“That best portion of a good mans life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.”
—Raymond Chandler (18881959)
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