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.)

    “Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.”
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

    “The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)