Quotation Explorer - 'Detain'

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. - Homer
ARREST, v.t. Formally to detain one accused of unusualness. God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. _The Unauthorized Version_ - Ambrose Bierce
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. - Walter Landor
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. - Peter Ustinov
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