Repose Quotes

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

A day`s work is a day`s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day`s sustenance, a night`s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.

Joy, temperance, and repose, Slam the door on the doctor`s nose.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Grey pensive eve now admonishes us of gloomy night`s hasty approach: I am roused by care to seek a place of secure repose, ere darkness comes on.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

Tenderness is the repose of Passion