Slight

Famous quotes containing the word slight:

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

“Now view yourself as I was, on the spot—
With a slight kind of engine. Do you see?
Like this . . . You wouldn’t hang me? I thought not.””
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

“A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilisation; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)