Grant Believed

Famous quotes containing the words grant and/or believed:

“At your request
My father will grant precious things as trifles.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, “he was a blockhead ....” BOSWELL. “Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life?” JOHNSON. “Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)