Famous quotes containing the word sooner:
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“And if I may not walk in th’ old ways and look on
th’ old faces
I wud sooner sleep.”
—Charlotte Mew (1870–1928)
“Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquet by giving him away.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)