Oft

Famous quotes containing the word oft:

“It oft falls out,
To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“And ten low words oft creep in one dull line:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving,
Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down
Steeples and moss-grown towers.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)