Citations:phoenixity


 * 1) * 1882, George Bernard Shaw, Cashel Byron's Profession
 * First, you will grant me that even a phoenix must marry some one in order that she may hand on her torch to her children. Her best course would be to marry another phoenix; but as she—poor girl!—cannot appreciate even her own phoenixity, much less that of another, she must perforce be content with a mere mortal.