Famous quotes containing the words london, power and/or company:
“I dont care very much for literary shrines and haunts ... I knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyles yard. And when I said, Why throw a stone into Carlyles yard? she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.”
—Carolyn Wells (18621942)
“The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.”
—John Stuart Mill (18061873)
“The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in mens company, can only be acquired in womens.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)