Heard

Famous quotes containing the word heard:

“A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“For Nym, he hath heard that men of few words are the best men,
and therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest ‘a should be
thought a coward.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We heard of all your gain when you had gone,
And talked about it when the meal lay done....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)