Compass Needle

Famous quotes containing the words compass and/or needle:

“Prithee don’t screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.”
—Colley Cibber (1671–1757)

“I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband’s dinner.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)