Closely Held Company

Famous quotes containing the words closely, held and/or company:

    “Let us together closely lie, and kisse,
    There is no labour, nor no shame in this;
    This hath pleas’d, doth please, and long will please; never
    Can this decay, but is beginning ever.”
    —Petronius Arbiter (d.A.D. 66)

    “It is my birthday,
    I had thought t’ have held it poor; but since my lord
    Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)