Famous quotes containing the words mackintosh and/or house:
“The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.”
—James Mackintosh (1765–1832)
“In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father’s house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband’s is almost a cloister.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)