Shortly

Famous quotes containing the word shortly:

“This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

“Two pale drops of fire. Guttering on the vast consuming darkness. My sister and myself. Shortly they will burn no more.”
—Richard Matheson (b. 1926)

“Of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)