Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

“Titania. What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love?
Bottom. I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let’s have the tongs and the bones.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men’s pursuits and professions to-day.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)