Slight

Famous quotes containing the word slight:

“And so on into winter
Till even I have ceased
To come as a foot printer,
And only some slight beast
So mousy or so foxy
Shall print there as my proxy.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“It is as often a weakness in the aged to dictate to the young, as it is folly in the young to slight the warnings of the aged.”
—H., U.S. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 230-3 (May 1828)

“Remember
they had slight and simple ways
sometimes,
slight, simple-hearted, suave,
imperious joys.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)