Lock and Key Quotes

In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England.

Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.

All our secret papers were kept in wooden cabinets with rods and padlocks. If you wanted to, you could tilt the cabinets and remove the papers from the bottom.

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

Wee see even in well-governed States, where there are lawes and punishments appointed for offendors, yet particular men travell not without their Sword by their sides, for their defences, neither sleep they without shutting not only their doores against their fellow Subjects, but also their Trunks and Coffers for feare of domestiques. Can men give a clearer testimony of the distrust they have each of other, and all, of all?

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.