Famous quotes containing the words john, montagu, douglas and/or scott:
“The very fact that there are experts may be intimidating; we hate to think that there must be one best way to handle any situation as parents and that we don’t know what it is. So as we get more and more advice we seem less and less sure of what we ought to do for our children.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“Solitude begets whimsies.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity—a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)
“Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)