Weekend Words: Leave
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
On Thursday, Great Britain decided to leave.
The Princesses would never leave without me and I couldn’t leave with the King, and the King will never leave.
—Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
One should always have one’s boots on, ready to leave.
—Montaigne, Essais
Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
—Pierre Corneille, Horace
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
—Albert Einstein
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
—Dorothy Nevill
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka
Wise men also die, and perish together: as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other. And yet they think their houses shall continue forever.
—Book of Common Prayer
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
—Homer
If you can’t get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff.
—Bert Kalmar, spoken by Groucho Marx in Duck Soup
O You,
Who came upon me once
Stretched under apple-trees just after bathing,
Why did you not strangle me before speaking
Rather than fill me with the wild white honey of your words
And then leave me to the mercy
Of the forest bees.
—Amy Lowell, “Carrefour”
She always believed in the old adage, “Leave them while you’re looking good.”
—Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
—Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Gittin
All conservatism is based on the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
—G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
