Famous quotes containing the words lake, placid and/or village:
“This is my lake country.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)