Charitable

Famous quotes containing the word charitable:

“Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.”
—J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)

“For my name and memory I leave 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)