Quiet

Famous quotes containing the word quiet:

“There’s something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights feeling their way across the sky like antennae, and the earth shaking snort of the bombs and the whimper of shrapnel pieces when they come down to patter on the roof.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

“You’ll never have a quiet world til you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

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