Slight

Famous quotes containing the word slight:

“This is a slight unmeritable man,
Meet to be sent on errands.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Two thoughts were so mixed up I could not tell
Whether of her or God he thought the most,
But think that his mind’s eye,
When upward turned, on one sole image fell;
And that a slight companionable ghost ...”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)