A chair should be judged by one's pants, a jewel by the light in a lady's eyes, a typewriter by the hovering fingers.

-Anonymous
  On good design. In Time,12  Jan.

Miss Bolo rose from thetable considerablyagitated, and went straight home, ina flood of tears, and a sedan chair.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.35.

The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble. See Shakespeare 764:23.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.2,'A Game of Chess'.

On a voulu, a'   tort, faire de la bourgeoisie une classe. La bourgeoisie est tout simplement la portion contente¤  e du peuple. Le bourgeois, c'est l'homme qui a maintenant le temps de s'asseoir.Une chaise n'est pas une caste. Humboldt Wrongly, one wanted to make the bourgeoisie a class. The bourgeoisie is simply a contented section of the public. A bourgeois is a man who now has the time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.4, bk.1, ch.2.

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.

-Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh
  'Rondeau'.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

-McLuhan, (Herbert) Marshall
  Understanding Media.

öShe marked thee there, 662 Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.341^4.

His Majesty entered the House, and as he passed up towards the Chair, he cast his eye on the right hand near Ruskin the Bar of the House where Mr Pym used to sit; but His Majesty, not seeing him there (knowing him well) went up to the Chair and said,'By your leave, Mr Speaker, I must borrow your chair a little.'

-Rushworth,John
  His account of the attempt made by Charles I to arrest five Members of Parliament on 4 Jan.

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'Sunday Morning', pt.1.

They lead, as a matter of fact, an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats.

-Thurber,James Grover
  On humorists. My Life and HardTimes, preface.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

-Toynbee, Arnold Joseph
  Letter, 26 Oct.

Siendo el esperar sentada la forma ma¤  s muerta de la espera muerta, siendo el esperar la forma menos estimulante de muerte. To wait, seated in a chair, is the deadest form of dead anticipation, and waiting the most uninspired form of death.

-Valenzuela, Luisa
  Cambio de armas,'Ceremonias de rechazo' (translated as OtherWeapons,'Rituals of Rejection',1985).

My war history has been a simple one. I have just sat in my chair and written all the time.

-Plum
  Letter to Ira Gershwin, 24 Jan.