Quotes about snug

A collection of quotes on the topic of snug, world, back, likeness.

Quotes about snug

Lewis Carroll photo

“I wonder if the snowthe trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Maya Angelou photo
Thomas Keneally photo
Seamus Heaney photo

“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Thomas Wolfe photo
Taylor Caldwell photo
Benjamin Franklin photo

“Here Skugg lies snug
As a bug in a rug.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley (September, 1772); reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Epistles

Bruno Schulz photo
Robert Southey photo

“From his brimstone bed, at break of day,
A-walking the Devil is gone,
To look at his little, snug farm of the World,
And see how his stock went on.”

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet

St. 1.
The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)