Instructed

Famous quotes containing the word instructed:

“... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“A child who is not rigorously instructed in the matter of table manners is a child whose future is being dealt with cavalierly. A person who makes an admiral’s hat out of linen napkins is not going to be in wild social demand.”
—Fran Lebowitz (20th century)

“Do not doubt it, he loves. Instructed by so many charms, his eyes have been trained in the use of tears.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)