Quiet

Famous quotes containing the word quiet:

“A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The common consolation which some good christian or other, is hourly administering to himself,—that he thanks God his mind does not misgive him; and that, consequently, he has a good conscience, because he has a quiet one,—is fallacious.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)