Placid Quotes

If I weren`t reasonably placid, I don`t think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you`ve got to be absolutely like a horse.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.