Held/people

Famous quotes containing the words held and/or people:

“Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and, when they say, Have you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)