Snatch

Famous quotes containing the word snatch:

    “O you gods!
    Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,
    And snatch them straight away?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fancied superiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “O ill-starred wench,
    Pale as thy smock! When we shall meet at compt,
    This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
    And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl,
    Even like thy chastity.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)