quiet quotes

  • Bien choisir son moment et se taire, serait-ce le seul moyen d'avoir e"  tre et habitat? To carefully choose one'smoment and keep quiet, isthis the only way one can be and live?

    - Samuel Beckett
      Nouvelles et textes pour rien.

  • Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
      Thessalonians 4:11.

  • Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

    -William Dunbar
      The Opening of the Field,'A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar'.

  • Un romancier, selon moi, n'a pas le droit de dire son avis sur les choses de ce monde. Il doit, dans sa vocation, imiter Dieu dans la sienne, c'est-a'  -dire faire et se taire. A novelist, in my opinion, does not have the right to give advice on the affairs of the world. He must, in his occupation, imitate God in His; that is to say, create and keep quiet.

    - Gustave Flaubert
      Letter to Mlle Bosquet.

  • Self-respect†comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments in quiet places when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the

    - Alfred Whitney Griswold
    Soviet  politician,  notorious  for  his   austere  and  humourless demeanour.   As   Foreign   Minister   (1957^85)   he   influenced Soviet relations with theWest during the ColdWar. President in 1985, he was replaced by Gorbachev.

  • The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

    - SirJohn Richard Hicks
      Econometrica,'The Theory of Monopoly'.

  • Give me my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage, And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

    - Sir Walter Raleigh
      The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage.

  • ImWesten nichts Neues. All Quiet on the Western Front.

    - Erich Maria Remarque
      Title of novel.

  • The quiet man is here to stay, and he's turning up the volume!

    - Iain Duncan Smith
      At the Conservative Party Conference, Oct.

  • Here, where the world is quiet, Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds'and spent waves'riot In doubtful dreams of dreams.

    - Algernon Charles Swinburne
      Poems and Ballads,'The Garden of Proserpine'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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