Famous quotes containing the word sooner:
“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“And if I may not walk in th’ old ways and look on
th’ old faces
I wud sooner sleep.”
—Charlotte Mew (1870–1928)
“No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)