Quotes about Linger
You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
- Jeremiah 51:50
This is a hell of a night. I don't want to leave it just to go to sleep.
- William Saroyan
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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.
- George Eliot
I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and loiter with me day by day until we gradually become familiar with all its localities.
- Washington Irving