“Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, and, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence...Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.” — St. Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older. — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“There is a limit to one's capacity for rows, you know. There comes a time when you're only too ready to sacrifice… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I lead a very quiet life and never court publicity. I don't go to a restaurant and let slip I'm leaving by… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
“He only wanted to have as much peace and quiet in his life as possible. He simply didn't realize that pursuing peace… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
“It’s one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor—and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed… — Lin Johnson Copy Share Image
If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which… — Geraldine Chaplin Copy Share Image
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
When I was actively working, I had more than my share of limelight. But over the last many years I have been… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We always think of saints as these monks or nuns or popes or priests from centuries ago who were celibate or lived… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
“the Sorcerer’s Stone, a legendary substance with astonishing powers. The Stone will transform any metal into pure gold. It also produces the… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to… — James Norton Copy Share Image
“I have lived recklessly, gambled my income away at the horse races, gone whoring, have been more drunk than sober, beaten men… — Andrea Zuvich Copy Share Image
“Emma had always considered herself to be possessed of a few fortunate qualities, offset by the same number of drawbacks. She was… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy - very unhappy… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I want a quiet life other times I want to go a little bit fucking Gatsby.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There is a quiet about the life of a farmer, and the hope of a serene old age, that no other business… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“...his dearest wish was that he could have a quiet life free from his obligations.” — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all . . .” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Anything for a quiet life; as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“This is how power works. The ones at the top make use of ideals, beliefs and money to entice those below them… — Chan Ho-Kei Copy Share Image
I live a very quiet life well under the radar and I drive a tiny car, own a cottage, that's about it.… — Brenda Fricker Copy Share Image
“When they are young, they would be old, and old, young.{244} Princes commend a private life; private men itch after honour: a… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“Nella vita: chi non risica, non rosica," he said finally, his voice quiet. "In life: nothing ventured, nothing gained. My mom used… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
“The fox and the nightingale made a quiet life together. A lesser creature might have held Koja’s mistakes against him, might have… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies… — Patsy Kensit Copy Share Image
Listen, I've done a lot of TV shows, people honestly don't care about me. Sometimes that's annoying because I wished that people… — Charlotte Crosby Copy Share Image
![“There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a…” quote by James Norton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e2a/james-norton-46478_active_there-s-so-much-going-on-in-andrei-bolko_592982.jpg)
