sofa quotes

  • It was too pathetic for the feelings of Sophia and myselfwe fainted alternately on the sofa.

    -Jane Austen
      Love and Freindship,'Letter the 8th'.

  • Thus first necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplished sofa last.

    -William Cowper
      The Task, bk.1,'The Sofa', l.86^8.

  • Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And, while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

    -William Cowper
      The Task, bk.4,'The Winter Evening', l.34^9.

  •    On a sofa upholstered in panther skin Mona did researches in original sin.

    -William Plomer
      'Mews Flat Mona'.

  • If youcannot have yourdear husband fora comfort and a delight, for a breadwinner and a crosspatch, for a sofa, chair or a hot-water bottle, one can use him as a Cross to be Borne.

    - Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
      Novel OnYellow Paper.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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