Slippery Rail

Famous quotes containing the words slippery and/or rail:

    “My credit now stands on such slippery ground
    That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,
    Either a coward or a flatterer.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.”
    —William Congreve (1670–1729)