Midriff/culture and History

Famous quotes containing the words culture and/or history:

    Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    Henry James (1843–1916)