Famous quotes containing the words waived, wide and/or receiver:
“There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwells house and Cromwells murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
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