Famous quotes containing the words written, subject and/or matter:
“He has been described as an innkeeper who hated his guests, a philosopher, and poet who left no written record of his thought, a despiser of women who gave all he had to one, an aristocrat, a proletarian, a pagan, an arcadian, an atheist, a lover of beauty, and, inadvertently, the stepfather of domestic science in America.”
—Administration in the State of Colo, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“To be the subject of alms-giving is trying, and to feel in duty bound to appear cheerfully grateful under the trial, must be still more so.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“Its a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you dont need to have anything else; and if you dont have it, it doesnt much matter what else you have.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)