Famous quotes containing the words court, packing and/or plan:
“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)
“He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (18001859)
“People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (16891762)
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