Stiff

Famous quotes containing the word stiff:

    “A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “I’ll view the manners of the town,
    Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,
    And then return and sleep within mine inn,
    For with long travel I am stiff and weary.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air
    Nelson stylites in Trafalgar Square
    Reminds the British what once they were.”
    —Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)