John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
232 Sir Walter Raleigh 1554?-1618 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 232 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618) |
| QUOTATION: | Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Silent Lover. |
| Note 1. Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi (The deepest rivers flow with the least sound).—Q. Curtius, vii. 4. 13. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.—William Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI. act iii. sc. i. [back] |