Famous quotes containing the word mutual:
“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruisticallyfor our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralistbut then what isnt?”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)
“Whoever takes a view of the life of man ... will find it so beset and hemmd in with obligations of one kind or other, as to leave little room to suspect, that man can live to himself: and so closely has our creator linkd us together ... that we find this bond of mutual dependence ... is too strong to be broke.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)