Shut

Famous quotes containing the word shut:

“Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)

“Ribald romeos less and less berattle
your shut window with impulsive pebbles.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)

“One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.”
—Albion Fellows Bacon (1865–1933)