Famous quotes containing the words book of, book and/or secrets:
“Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven’s own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter’s field of the newspapers’ back pages.”
—Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)
“Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“But the conquered grew meek and still.
They slowly and silently aged.
They kept their secrets and died....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)