Douglas/places

Famous quotes containing the words douglas and/or places:

    “Annie Laurie
    Gie’d me her promise true;
    Gie’d me her promise true,
    Which ne’er forgot will be;
    And for bonnie Annie Laurie
    I’d lay me doune and dee.”
    —William Douglas (1672?–1748)

    “All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)