Capital

Famous quotes containing the word capital:

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

“Woman—with a capital letter—should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of “movements” on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and development ... than for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.”
—Marion Harland (1830–1922)

“We make needless ado about capital punishment,—taking lives, when there is no life to take.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)