Famous quotes containing the words party and/or court:
“A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)