Playing Members

Famous quotes containing the words playing and/or members:

    “Come, come” said Tom’s father, “at your time of life,
    There’s no longer excuse for thus playing the rake—
    It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife.”
    “Why, so it is, father—whose wife shall I take?”
    Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

    A multitude of little superfluous precautions engender here a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision, which seemed to say, though everything is done with much silence, “Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state.”
    Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)