Re: Curious Posted by bob on November 14, 1999
In Reply to: Curious posted by rob on
November 14, 1999
: I'd like to someone to explain in detail the phrase 'still waters
run deep'
Quoting from Brewer's:
Silent and quiet conspirators or traitors are most dangerous; barking
dogs never bite; the fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep:
And in his simple show he harbours treason.
The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb;
No, no, my sovereign, Gloucester is a man
Unsounded yet, and full of deep deceit."
Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., III. f.
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