Capital

Famous quotes containing the word capital:

“Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

“That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)