Famous quotes containing the words country club, country and/or club:
“Don: Im not going near that country club.
Wick: Why not?
Don: Theyre all a bunch of hypocrites. I dont like to be whispered aboutLook whos here from New York, the Birnam brothers. Or rather the nurse and the invalid.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a Declaration &c. which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overthrowing them exists in the union of numbers linked together by common opinion and effort ... the united watchword of thousands would strike at the foundation of the false system and annihilate it.”
—Mme. Ellen Louise Demorest 18241898, U.S. womens magazine editor and womans club movement pioneer. Demorests Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 203 (January 1870)