Famous quotes containing the words history of, company, history, india, east, dutch and/or century:
“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I’ th’ East my pleasure lies.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
—Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.
“It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)