Famous quotes containing the word protracted:
“I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“One of those sound slumbers which, lasting in reality some half hour, seem to the sleeper to have been protracted for three weeks or a month.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“That life protracted is protracted woe.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)