Stays

Famous quotes containing the word stays:

“Be thou the first true merit to befriend;
His praise is lost who stays till all commend.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)