Shut Quotes

1936 Shut quotes by 1298 unique authors

Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at… — Rabindranath Tagore
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut… — Katharine Hepburn
The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return. — Jean de La Fontaine
[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. — Joseph Hall
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no… — Seneca the Younger
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But… — Laozi
Do good even to the wicked; it is as well to shut a dog's mouth with a crumb. — Saadi
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture… — George Orwell
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in… — Edvard Munch
When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't.… — Dean Martin
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few who consider its… — Wallace Stevens
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed… — James Bryce
Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those… — Jose Marti
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. — Aristophanes
When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your… — Soren Kierkegaard
Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory… — Paul Cezanne
If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off… — Cynthia Nixon
The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive… — Taslima Nasrin
I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying… — Jack Osbourne
Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out. — Kelly Osbourne
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut. — Frank Lautenberg
Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace… — Mark Skousen
This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life. — Frederick Lenz

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