Clay Court Season

Famous quotes containing the words clay, court and/or season:

    “I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my death-bed could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to her soil. I would not even feed her worms if I could help it.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)