Possess

Famous quotes containing the word possess:

    That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    [T]he most artful method [of courtship] would be this, to tell her that what she doth not possess is useless and contemptible, that weakness and imperfection is the perfection of a woman, that I am stark mad in love with ignorance; and thus shall I allure her by calling her [a] fool.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    We would not let ourselves be burned at the stake for our opinions: we are not that certain of them. But perhaps we would do so in order to be allowed to possess and to change them.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)