Quotes of Errant - somelinesforyou

“ There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna. ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress. ”

- Virgil Thomson

“ For if a man's mind move under the sway of errant senses they sweep away his wisdom, as the winds sweep away an unmanned ship on the waters. ”

- Hindu scripture

“ Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own. ”

- Adrienne Rich
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