Famous quotes containing the words hearing and/or loss:
“A fearful man is always hearing things.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“I have always observed, when there is as much sour as sweet in a compliment, that an Englishman is eternally at a loss within himself, whether to take it, or let it alone: a Frenchman never is.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)