Famous quotes containing the words reasonable time, reasonable, time and/or lines:
“Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“Now’s the time for mirth and play,
Saturday’s an holiday;
Praise to heaven unceasing yield,
I’ve found a lark’s nest in the field.”
—Christopher Smart (1722–1771)
“Child of Light! thy limbs are burning
Through the vest which seems to hide them;
As the radiant lines of morning
Through the clouds ere they divide them;
And this atmosphere divinest
Shrouds thee wheresoe’er thou shinest.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)