Famous quotes containing the words formal, group and/or laws:
“On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
—Harriet Martineau (18021876)
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