Slight

Famous quotes containing the word slight:

“I have made slight acquaintance also with one Mrs. Lidia Emerson, who almost persuades me to be a Christian, but I fear I as often lapse into heathenism.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation—a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“A slight relax of air. All is not dead.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)