Quotes About Linger

My family always ate dinner at the table, and we would chat about our day while eating. My parents like to have a few glasses of wine and linger after the meal is over, peeling oranges for dessert while talking. It's lovely.

Make yourselves at home, boys. Stay awhile. Oh, sorry—I see you already have. Damn ghosts.

The moral law was not written for men alone in their individual character, but it was written as well for nations, and for nations great as this of which we are citizens. If nations reject and deride that moral law, there is a penalty which will inevitably follow. It may not come at once, it may not come in our lifetime; but, rely upon it, the great Italian is not a poet only, but a prophet, when he says: "The sword of heaven is not in haste to smite, Nor yet doth linger."

Badness lingered, and if blood penetrated deep enough into wood, the stain became near permanent. The past gave substance to the present, and all old places were storehouses of memory: the more ancient the site, the greater the accumulation, and bygone atrocities called to new.

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

It was typical of him that he lacked the taste to make a final exit. He spent too long at his farewells, chatting in the doorway, letting in the cold.

The violet seemed inclined to linger, but Sebastien's host-or hostess-gestured him to shut the door with one commandingly whirled finger.

Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the page. You can linger on a page of comics as long as you want. You can read and go forward and then move back; you can reread, in one sitting or at your leisure. You can take as much time as you want to take in that story.

Ah, Iddio non paga il Sabatol ('God does not pay on a Saturday')—the wages of men's sins often linger in their payment, and I myself saw much established wickedness of long-standing prosperity.

The valley of regrets can pull you down into its quicksand bottom: it's best not to linger there.

Thank you," I whispered. ... "Remember me," I said, knowing they would. And then, as fast as a shooting star, I was gone.

The smell of tobacco usually reminded Mirabelle of being a child – coming downstairs in the morning when the dinner party her parents had hosted the night before was cleared away, but the scent of cigars still lingered.

Because this was a time and a land where enchantments were swiftly made and broken she wanted to linger over her lunch, knowing that Hill House always waited for her at the end of her day.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

Words stick, even when we don't want them to.

Give me peaches like burning clouds. I'll pare those globes until dawn. The syrup will linger on my fingers like your scent. Let me escape my own insistence.

I find that I can't ever leave my troubles behind me. Pesky things; they tag after me wherever I go.

Fright and loss leave residue.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

My voice cut into the silence. The words hung there, searing themselves on the little room long after the sound had died away.

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

After three days houseguests and food begins to stink!

She swayed slightly as I came through the door, like a ghost debating whether to vanish. She stayed.

Still, it haunted me.