“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.”
Source: The A.B.C. Murders
“Tis the quiet people that do the work.”
Act III. — (Lucia).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 243.
L’Amor Costante (1536)
Original
Acque quete fan le cose.
Lucia: Atto III
L’Amor Costante (1536)
Source: Citato in Harbottle, p. 243.
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Context: The most powerful prayer, one wellnigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
