Proper Function

Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or function:

“To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another, will only produce miserable, abortive performances.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)