Birling Family Quotes & Sayings

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi

When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn't get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do? — Alysha Speer

I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively. — G.H. Hardy

I am an instigator of the national energies. — A. C. Cuza

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. — Molly Ivins