Famous quotes containing the word believed:
“Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, he was a blockhead .... BOSWELL. Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life? JOHNSON. Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“Theres no use trying, she said: one cant believe impossible things. I daresay you havent had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes Ive believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)