Covert Actions

Famous quotes containing the words covert and/or actions:

    “There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
    And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
    The city to the soldier’s rage resigned;
    Successless wars, and poverty behind;
    Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
    And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
    The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
    And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “They are actions that a man might play,
    But I have that within which passes show,
    These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)