Famous quotes containing the words court, house and/or hill:
“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 (17751817)
“Just the same as a month before,
The house and the trees,
The barns brown gable, the vine by the door,
Nothing changed but the hives of bees.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892)
“Oh, lets go up the hill and scare ourselves,
As reckless as the best of them tonight,
By setting fire to all the brush we piled
With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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