Number Due

Famous quotes containing the words number and/or due:

    “At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.”
    —HonorĂ© De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)