Nervous Shock

Famous quotes containing the words nervous and/or shock:

“He was the finest of our happy men;
He had all joys, he never thought of death;
He fiddled sometimes with his mind, and then
Shook off the tremor like a nervous wren....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.”
—F.H. (Francis Herbert)