Famous quotes containing the word occasion:
“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one’s mind. It becomes a pleasure.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“But you must know the class of sweet women—who are always so happy to declare “they have all the rights they want”; “they are perfectly willing to let their husbands vote for them”Mare and always have been numerous, though it is an occasion for thankfulness that they are becoming less so.”
—Eliza “Mother” Stewart (1816–1908)
“Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)