Lay Open Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. — Horace
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our… — Peter Abelard
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,… — John Aubrey
All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives, — Philip Larkin
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises… — Robert Musil
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party. — Tacitus
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay… — John Barth
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. — William Hazlitt
Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of… — William Shakespeare
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs… — Terry Pratchett
His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them upon her in… — Georgette Heyer

Who Wrote These Lay Open Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Lay Open Quotes as follows: