Charitable

Famous quotes containing the word charitable:

“She was so charitable and so pitous
She wolde wepe, if that she saugh a mous
Kaught in a trappe, if it were deed or bledde.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“For my name and memory I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)