The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender — Anne Boleyn Copy Share Image
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods. — Jules Laforgue Copy Share Image
“He was not all good, would never be; yet there were slender threads of okay.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and Eternal Knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins. — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch… — Gina Carano Copy Share Image
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind… — Soong May-ling Copy Share Image
Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“This is what most girls are taught—that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space. We should be… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
His mane was like a crest, mounting, then falling low. His neck was long and slender, and arched to the small, savagely… — Walter Farley Copy Share Image
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall; of all beasts,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. — John Webster Copy Share Image
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
