Famous quotes containing the word beg:
“Dont crouch any more and cling to my knees,
dont tempt me and try me,
dont beg like a child and cry,
you have taken my hope away.
I am not a god.
I cannot make you happy.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“I beg your pardon? said Alice.
It isnt respectable to beg, said the King.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal requestit is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will enfranchise women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator. I beg of you not to close your term of office without doing this.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)