Slight

Famous quotes containing the word slight:

    A Cat
    I keep, that playes about my House,
    Grown fat,
    With eating many a miching Mouse.
    To these
    A Trasy I do keep, whereby
    I please
    The more my rurall privacie:
    Which are
    But toyes, to give my heart some ease:
    Where care
    None is, slight things do lightly please.
    Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

    A slight relax of air where cold was
    And water trickles ...
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    A slight digression: that bit about my mother was a deliberate lie. In reality, she was a woman of the people, simple and coarse, sordidly dressed in a kind of blouse hanging loose at the waist. I could, of course, have crossed it out, but I purposely leave it there as a sample of one of my essential traits: my light-hearted, inspired lying.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)