Creeping

Famous quotes containing the word creeping:

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,
Rising and cawing at the gun’s report,
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky—
So at his sight away his fellows fly.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)