Famous quotes containing the words civil, affairs and/or command:
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.”
—Duc De Richelieu (1585–1642)
“By his command these words are cut:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)