Subjects

Famous quotes containing the word subjects:

“At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore every body, not greatly in fault themselves, to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)