Subjects

Famous quotes containing the word subjects:

“Conversation ... is like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“I am all the subjects that you have,
Which first was mine own king.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)