Fee Tail Estate

Famous quotes containing the words fee, tail and/or estate:

“..for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s very life.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 6:26.

“Who is going to raise the dog’s tail if he doesn’t do it himself?”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)

“Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)