
“There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.”
Of Bashfulness
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.”
“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
The Study of the Negro Problems, paragraph 50, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XI (January 1898) http://www.webdubois.org/dbStudyofnprob.html
Source: Dusk of Dawn
Source: The Gate to Women's Country (1988), Chapter 34 (p. 302)
Dennis King (January 12, 1990) "Matt Dillon - This Era's James Dean - 'Drugstore Cowboy' Star Takes Critics' Award, Speculation About Oscar Nomination in Stride", Tulsa World, p. C1.
“I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”