Famous quotes containing the word direct:
“O wretched fool,
That lovst to make thine honesty a vice!
O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
To be direct and honest is not safe.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“A temple, you know, was anciently an open place without a roof, whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
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