Native Affairs

Famous quotes containing the words native and/or affairs:

“Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
Whatever they are....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband’s dinner.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)