Tone Receiver

Famous quotes containing the words tone and/or receiver:

“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)