Tend

Famous quotes containing the word tend:

“... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

“It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)