Narrow

Famous quotes containing the word narrow:

“To judge from a single conversation, he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity. Off his own beat, his opinions were of no value.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Who said, ‘All Time’s delight
Hath she for narrow bed;
Life’s troubled bubble broken’?—
That’s what I said.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)

“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)