Famous quotes containing the words empire, health and/or choice:
“An empire is an immense egotism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Woman ... cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Therefore is love said to be a child
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Related Phrases
Related Words