Famous quotes containing the words oxford and/or shakespeare:
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)
“Mamillius. What color are your eyebrows?
1st Lady. Blue, my lord.
Mamillius. Nay, that’s a mock. I have seen a lady’s nose
That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)