Permitted

Famous quotes containing the word permitted:

“But with some small portion of real genius and a warm imagination, an author surely may be permitted a little to expand his wings and to wander in the aerial fields of fancy, provided ... that he soar not to such dangerous heights, from whence unplumed he may fall to the ground disgraced, if not disabled from ever rising anymore.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Often I am permitted to return to a meadow
as if it were a given property of the mind
that certain bounds hold against chaos,

that is a place of first permission,
everlasting omen of what is.”
—Robert Duncan (b. 1919)