Famous quotes containing the words history, english, short and/or split:
“It is my conviction that women are the natural orators of the race.”
—Eliza Archard Connor, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 9, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be much wiser Men than our selves; but if they would have us laugh at them, they must fall short of us in those Respects which stir up this Passion.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)