Cease

Famous quotes containing the word cease:

    “Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.”
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    “Although I joy in thee,
    I have no joy of this contract tonight.
    It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
    Too like the lightning which doth cease to be
    Ere one can say it lightens.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I shall not cease to bless because
    I lay about me with the taws
    That night and morning I may thrash
    Greek Alexander from my flesh,
    Augustus Caesar, and after these
    That great rogue Alcibiades.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)