wide quotes

Not deep the Poet sees, but wide.

- Matthew Arnold
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'Resignation', l.214.

My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.

- Gustave Flaubert
  The Temptation of St  Antony.

'Whoever has opened the window has opened it too wide,'said Miss Brodie.'Six inches isperfectlyadequate. More is vulgar.'

- Dame Muriel Sarah ne  e  Camberg Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, ch.3.

'I'll not hurt thee,'says my uncleToby, rising from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand, 'I'll not hurt a hair of thy head:Go,'says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape;'go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.'

- Laurence Sterne
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.2, ch.12.