Civil Service Affairs

Famous quotes containing the words civil, service and/or affairs:

“Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men’s necessities, while elsewhere she was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim’s shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.”
—Duc De Richelieu (1585–1642)