Quiet

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 (1564–1616)

“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 (1740–1795)