High Proper Motion

Famous quotes containing the words high, proper and/or motion:

    “Good breeding ... differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “No motion has she now, no force;
    She neither hears nor sees;
    Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course,
    With rocks, and stones, and trees.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)