Appearance Minor Characters

Famous quotes containing the words appearance, minor and/or characters:

    “The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)