Slight

Famous quotes containing the word slight:

    “But I,
    how I hate you for this,
    how I despise and hate,
    was my beauty so slight a gift,
    so soon, so soon forgot?”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “A slight digression: that bit about my mother was a deliberate lie. In reality, she was a woman of the people, simple and coarse, sordidly dressed in a kind of blouse hanging loose at the waist. I could, of course, have crossed it out, but I purposely leave it there as a sample of one of my essential traits: my light-hearted, inspired lying.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “This is a slight unmeritable man,
    Meet to be sent on errands.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)