Secret War

Famous quotes containing the words secret and/or war:

“her secret was as safe
as a fly in an outhouse.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“The dead have been awakened—shall I sleep?
The world’s at war with tyrants—shall I crouch?
The harvest’s ripe—and shall I pause to reap?
I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch;
Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear,
Its echo in my heart.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)