Snatches Quotes
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wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds
and patches Of ballads, songs
and snatches And dreamy lullaby!
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More Snatches Quotes
I can’t quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world’s problems.
robert benchley— "Ask That Man" in Pluck and Luck (1925)
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.
george eliot— Book 1 (The Spanish Gypsy (1868))
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, even though it be covertly, and by snatches.
Herman Melville— Since at least 1954 this has also been published at times as "Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe…", apparently a typographical error.
I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.
mary wollstonecraft— Letter to Gilbert Imlay (19 August 1794)
