Cover Plates

Famous quotes containing the words cover and/or plates:

“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)