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# Weekend Words: Leave
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-remain/
- Published: 2016-06-26T13:13:27.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:29:12.000Z
- Description: "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:17 (2016, 2017, part 1)

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Paolo Veronese, “Girl in the Doorway” (1560-61), fresco, Villa Barbaro, Maser, Italy (image via Web Gallery of Art)

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***