Famous quotes containing the words main, bearing and/or caps:
“Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, shes still virtuous; thats a maxim.”
—George Farquhar (16781707)
“I tell you there isnt a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless its bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“... people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fools caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody elses were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)