Called Intolerable Acts

Famous quotes containing the words called, intolerable and/or acts:

    “If I were called in
    To construct a religion
    I should make use of water.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.”
    —James Boswell (1740–1795)

    “Whoso will seeken acts of sundry realms
    May read of dreames many a wonder thing.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)