lazy quotes

His lazy, long, lascivious reign.

-Defoe, Daniel
  Of Charles II. The True-Born Englishman, pt.1, l.236.

It is the responsibility of the poet to be lazy to hang out and prophesy.

-Paley, Grace ne¤  e  Goodside
  Begin Again: New and Collected Poems,'Responsibility'.

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

-Sandys, George
  On the monks of Patmos. Relation of aJourney Begun An. Dom.1610. Spanish^US   philosopher,    poet   and   novelist,    Professor   of Philosophy  at  Harvard  (1907^12).  His  writing  career  began  as a   poet   with   Sonnets   and   Other  Verses   (1894),   but   he   later became  known  as  a  philosopher  and  stylist,  in  such  works  as The  Life  of  Reason  (5  vols, 1905^6),  Realms  of  Being  (4  vols, 1927^40),  and  his  novel The  Last  Puritan  (1935).  He  moved  to Europe   in  1912,   stayed   at   Oxford  during  World  War   I,   then settled in Rome.

Daisy and Lily, Lazy and silly, Walk by the shore of the wan grass sea,ö Talking once more 'neath a swan-bosomed tree.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade 'Valse'.

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