Famous quotes containing the word comfortable:
“Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady, intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“And get a comfortable wife and house
To rid me of the devil in my shoes,
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
And the worse devil that is between my thighs.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wifes spirits.”
—John Gay (16851732)
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