Bare Action

Famous quotes containing the words bare and/or action:

    To feed were best at home;
    From thence, the sauce to meat is ceremony;
    Meeting were bare without it.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
    Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)