Famous quotes containing the word permitted:
“If you address a ghost as “Thing!”
Or strike him with a hatchet,
He is permitted by the King
To drop all formal parleying—
And then you’re sure to catch it!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“For men are not equal: thus speaks justice. And what I want, they are not permitted to want!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word “stammer.” I can’t say it myself.”
—Patrick Campbell (1913–1980)