Narrow

Famous quotes containing the word narrow:

    Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    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)

    Less than five hundred souls inhabit the three quaint streets and the few narrow by-lanes and scattered farmsteads that constitute this small, decaying watering-place which may, indeed, be called a “backwater of life” without disrespect to its natives who possess, to this day, a salty individuality of their own.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)