Circumstance

Famous quotes containing the word circumstance:

“She found his manners very pleasing indeed.—The little flaw of
having a Mistress now living with him at Ashdown Park, seems to
be the only unpleasing circumstance about him.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)

“Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“The historian’s job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.”
—Peter Conrad (b. 1948)