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)

“Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)