Top 11 Vapour Quotes - Quoted Daily

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

William Shakespeare

Vapour, Earth, Cynicism

'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

Pieter Zeeman

Sodium, Vapour, Rotation

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Lynne Truss

Vapour, Way, Punctuation

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.today.com. November 6, 2013.

The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Lynne Truss

Arbitrary, Vapour, Way

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.

Willie Soon

Clouds, Water, Vapour

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

William Shakespeare

Love, Jealousy, Vapour

'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

J. A. Baker

Doe, Pits, Vapour

There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.

Willie Soon

Clouds, Water, Vapour

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .

William Shakespeare

Greatness, Sea, Vapour

William Shakespeare (2014). “Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Complete Comedies, Histories, Tragedies and Poems”, p.3436, Ageless Reads

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

Samuel Johnson

Adventure, Vapour, Way

'The Plays of William Shakespeare, with Notes' (1765) preface (Yale ed., p. 74)