Hasty

Famous quotes containing the word hasty:

    “For he could coin, or counterfeit
    New words, with little or no wit;
    Words so debas’d and hard, no stone
    Was hard enough to touch them on;
    And when with hasty noise he spoke ‘em;
    The ignorant for current took ‘em;”
    —Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

    “Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success—had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.”
    —Mae West (1892–1980)

    “A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)