Famous quotes containing the words late and/or hit:
“The late PrĂ©sident de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blindhe had been so for such a long timebut I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“Madam your wife and I didnt hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I wont say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasnt me.”
—Elizabeth Gaskell (18101865)