Common Side

Famous quotes containing the words common and/or side:

    The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy.—Take of common sense quantum sufficit, add a little application to the rules and orders of the House, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness, and elegancy of style.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    It seems incredible, and I love them no less; and I can say that I would rather die than see any diminution of it on one side or the other.
    Elizabeth I (1533–1603)