Slight

Famous quotes containing the word slight:

    “Th’ increasing prospect tires our wand’ring eyes.
    Hills peep o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!
    A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
    With the same spirit that its author writ:
    Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find
    Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “True love does not quarrel for slight reasons, such mistakes as mutual acquaintances can explain away, but, alas, however slight the apparent cause, only for adequate and fatal and everlasting reasons, which can never be set aside.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Your anger charms me,
    and yet all the time
    I think of chaste, slight hands,
    veined snow.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)