Short

Famous quotes containing the word short:

    The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)