Famous quotes containing the words minor and/or character:
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.”
—Mary Mcleod Bethune (18751955)
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