Famous quotes containing the word quiet:
“He makes his home where the living is best.”
—Latin proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)
“I know myself now, and I feel within me
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I teazed him with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness. A moth having fluttered round the candle, and burnt itself, he laid hold of this little incident to admonish me; saying, with a sly look, and in a solemn but quiet tone, That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.”
—James Boswell (17401795)
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