Offences Against The Person Act 1861 - Concealing The Birth of A Child

Famous quotes containing the words concealing the, concealing, birth and/or child:

“Our books are false by being fragmentary: their sentences are bon mots, and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature; or, worse, owing a brief notoriety to their petulance, or aversion from the order of nature,—being some curiosity or oddity, designedly not in harmony with nature, and purposely framed to excite surprise, as jugglers do by concealing their means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)

“The boredom of Sunday afternoon, which drove de Quincey to drink laudanum, also gave birth to surrealism: hours propitious for making bombs.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“There are only two things a child will share willingly—communicable diseases and his mother’s age.”
—Benjamin Spock (b. 1903)