Famous quotes containing the words huxley, family, rachel and/or issue:
“I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, to please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.”
—Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
“I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)