Famous quotes containing the word mistakes:
“Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“She had an unequalled gift ... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”
—Henry James (18431916)