Famous quotes containing the word hold:
“It isnt that I want to hold the children here, its just that I worry about what our life will be like. I dont know what well talk about, just the two of us, after all these years.”
—Anonymous Parents. As quoted in Women of a Certain Age, by Lillian B. Rubin, ch. 2 (1979)
“To be made to hold his tongue is the greatest insult you can offer himthough he might be ready with a poker to make you hold yours.”
—Mrs. Patrick Campbell (18651940)
“Dirty fellow! exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, hark you, Mrs. Frog, youd best hold your tongue; for I must make bold to tell you, if you dont, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)