Quiet

Famous quotes containing the word quiet:

“Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

“I know myself now, and I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)