““Harry!” Boutin said. “Nice guy. Didn’t know he was that smart. He hid it well.””
John Scalzi book The Ghost Brigades
Source: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 12 (p. 275)
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French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist 1596–1650Related quotes
“Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: The Piper's Son
“Well doth he live who lives retired, and keeps
His wants within the limit of his means.”
Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intra
Fortunam debet quisque manere suam.
Variant translation: Believe me that he who has passed his time in retirement, has lived to a good end, and it behoves every man to live within his means
III, iv, 26
Tristia (Sorrows)
“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”
Amy Tan book Saving Fish from Drowning
Source: Saving Fish from Drowning
“For he lives twice who can at once employ
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Imitation of Martial, reported in Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence (1737), Vol. V, p. 232; The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt, sixth edition (Yale University Press, 1970), p. 117. Compare: "Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est Vivere bis vita posse priore frui" (Translated: "The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice"), Martial, X, 237.; "Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race", Abraham Cowley, Discourse XI, Of Myself, stanza xi.
“86. He that lives well is learned enough.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“I couldn’t see what you could show me
Your scarf had kept your mouth well hid”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)
“He who did well in war just earns the right
To begin doing well in peace.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
Luria, Act ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“He listens well who takes notes.”
Dante Alighieri book Inferno
Canto XV, line 99 (tr. Clive James).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno