Thin Walled Shell

Famous quotes containing the words thin, walled and/or shell:

    “Romeo. Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
    Thou talk’st of nothing.
    Mercutio. True, I talk of dreams,
    Which are the children of an idle brain,
    Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
    Which is as thin of substance as the air,
    And more inconstant than the wind.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature,
    always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)