Famous quotes containing the word parted:
“You should be alerte, adroit, vif; be wanted, talked of, impatiently expected, and unwillingly parted with in company.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The soger frae the wars returns,
The sailor frae the main,
But I hae parted frae my Love,
Never to meet again, my dear,
Never to meet again.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn’d over
upon me,
And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my
feet.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)