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Fortnight Quotes

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

Graham Nelson
Broken Heart, Care, Fortnight

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Joseph Chamberlain
Use, Next, Fortnight
In letter from A. J. Balfour to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 24 March 1886, in A. J. Balfour 'Chapters of Autobiography' (1930) ch. 16

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Samuel Richardson
Lasts, Honeymoon, Fortnight
Samuel Richardson (2015). “Clarissa Harlowe V1: the history of a young lady”, p.168, 谷月社

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc
Running, Lasts, Fortnight

One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight.

Jane Austen
Men, Ends, Fortnight
Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.284, Ageless Reads

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Hands, Found, Fortnight
1937 'Prothalamion'.

If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a morningstar hidden under your pillow within a fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation.

George R. R. Martin
Doubt, Trying, Fortnight
George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.196, Bantam

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