“A bad peace is worse than war.”— Tacitus Related Quotes “Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?”— Francis de Sales “To be misunderstood can be the writer’s punishment for having disturbed the reader’s peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.”– Anatole Broyard “Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she’s had a very sad life.”— Wally Lamb