Top Weighty Quotes
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
Isaac Rosenberg
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Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska 
58% of people like this quote
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.
Virginia Woolf
56% of people like this quote
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Vita Sackville-West
51% of people like this quote
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.
Isaac Rosenberg
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Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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