System Reply

Famous quotes containing the words system and/or reply:

    Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.
    George Canning (1770–1827)

    Doesn’t that show what an old man I am, when I can say to a mother “I love your daughter,” and not get the reply “what are your intentions, and what is your income?”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)