Knew

Famous quotes containing the word knew:

“... what a strange time it was! Who knew his neighbor? Who was a traitor and who a patriot? The hero of to-day was the suspected of to-morrow.... There were traitors in the most secret council-chambers. Generals, senators, and secretaries looked at each other with suspicious eyes.... It is a great wonder that the city of Washington was not betrayed, burned, destroyed a half-dozen times.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

“He knew human folly like the back of his hand,”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“I knew that Ivy, like every woman, really only wanted to know what I felt—or thought, if I didn’t feel anything.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)