Watching

Famous quotes containing the word watching:

“Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars “Well,” he would say, “if we blow ourselves up, there’s plenty more where we came from!””
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

“Oh! death will find me long before I tire
Of watching you.”
—Rupert Brooke (1887–1915)