Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity."
Vacancy quotes
Vacancy
27 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position."
Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?"
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Gloomy calm of idle vacancy."
Christopher Buckley
Author
"Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court."
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"If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none."
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"How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations."
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"Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance"
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"A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity."
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"from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this."
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