Subjects

Famous quotes containing the word subjects:

“It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Such subjects are the very strength of kings, and are thus above the law.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“Last night, party at Lansdowne-House. Tonight, party at Lady Charlotte Greville’s—deplorable waste of time, and something of temper. Nothing imparted—nothing acquired—talking without ideas—if any thing like thought in my mind, it was not on the subjects on which we were gabbling. Heigho!—and in this way half London pass what is called life.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)