Thin Double Layer

Famous quotes containing the words thin, double and/or layer:

    “Think of those barren places where men gather
    To act in the terrible name of rectitude,
    Of acned shame, punk’s pride, muscle or turf,
    The bully’s thin superiority.”
    —Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    “We are, I know not how, double within ourselves, with the result that we do not believe what we believe, and we cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)