Famous quotes containing the words customs and/or house:
“O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you
and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a countrys
fashion. We are the makers of manners, Kate.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Of all the riddles of a married life, said my father ... there is not one that has more intricacies in it than thisthat from the very moment the mistress of the house is brought to [child]bed, every female in it ... becomes an inch taller for it....
I think rather, replied my uncle Toby, that tis we who sink an inch lower.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)