Drooping Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head…
— William Shakespeare
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs.All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you…
— Cindy Crawford
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Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and…
— Charles Darwin
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She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.
— Jean M. Auel
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In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that…
— Yukio Mishima
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in…
— John Milton
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Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
— Abraham Cowley
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And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name,…
— Norman MacCaig
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God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
— Sarah Fielding
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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this…
— Carl Sandburg
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What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It…
— Edgar Lee Masters
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
— Tracy Chevalier
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Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs…
— Daphne du Maurier
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She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother’s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.
— George R. R. Martin
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
— John Milton
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Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Who Wrote These Drooping Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Drooping Quotes as follows: