Famous quotes containing the word sort:
“A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer—that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffling, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)
“Your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I am a sort of collector of religions; and the curious thing is that I find I can believe them all.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)