Small Submerged Reef

Famous quotes containing the words small, submerged and/or reef:

“Adultery? Thou shalt not die. Die for adultery!
No, the wren goes to’t, and the small gilded fly
Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“Striking his former happiness against the reef of justice he has perished unwept for and unseen.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)