Grant

Famous quotes containing the word grant:

“America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have lived in a cave and worn skins.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that.... Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“If anybody could overthrow the spoils doctrine and practice, Grant is the man. It has been thought impossible hitherto, but I hope with some confidence that he will win.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)