(35 quotes found)
“Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,But then woos best when most his choice is froward.”
William Shakespeare
“He prays but faintly and would be denied.”
“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
William Blake
“'Twas whispered in heaven, 'twas muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.”
Catherine Maria Fanshawe
“Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, Making a tumult, nothing could assuage, To swirl in the air that knows not day or night, Like sand withi”
Dante Alighieri
“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]”
Michael Crichton
“Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.”
Patricia Meyer Spacks
“And with faint praises one another damn.”
William Wycherley
“I've had people swing at me, ... I've had people faint on me. I had one man, he just kept pushing me. He just wanted to make sure he wasn't having a dream.”
Walter Johnson
“In 18 years, I've never seen somebody [faint]. Three times.”
Dean Ferington
