Famous quotes containing the words montagu, douglas and/or scott:
“Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses ... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)
“Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)