Native Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:

    “The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your
    flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a
    roar?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)