Calm

Famous quotes containing the word calm:

“In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)

“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)