Hidden Immunity Idols

Famous quotes containing the words hidden, immunity and/or idols:

“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the “dear deceit” of beauty.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defence-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

““The idols have seen lots of poverty,
Snakes and gold and lice,
But not the truth....””
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)