Deaf People

Famous quotes containing the words deaf and/or people:

    This habit of free speaking at ladies’ lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness. Could society be deaf and dumb and Congress abolished for a season, what a happy and peaceful life one could lead!
    M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)