Unthinkable/reception

Famous quotes containing the words unthinkable and/or reception:

    There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

    Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)