Quotes by English Authors - Page 11

Words that weep and tears that speak.
Abraham Cowley
Sacrifices are no sacrifices when they are repaid a thousand fold.
William Hazlitt
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*
William Shakespeare
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Francis Bacon
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Thomas Fuller
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.
William Shakespeare
It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not, therefore, abandon the commonwealth, for the same reasons as you should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the winds. You are not obliged to assault people with discourses that are out of their road, when you see that their received notions must prevent your making an impression upon them: you ought rather to cast about and to manage things with all the dexterity in your power, so that, if you are not able to make them go well, they may be as little ill as possible; for, except all men were good, everything cannot be right, and that is a blessing that I do not at present hope to see.
Thomas More
It is a good thing to be happy alone. It is better to be happy in company, but good to be happy alone. Men owe me the advantage of their society, but if they deny me that just debt, I will not be unjust to myself, and side with them in bereaving me. I will not be discouraged, lest I be miserable for company. More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge itself is power
Francis Bacon
A great ship asks deep water.
George Herbert
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
William Shakespeare
Suit the action to the word, theWord to the action.
William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
William Cowper
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.
Nicholas Hilliard
Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.
John Milton
Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.
William Shakespeare
Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.
William Congreve
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mockThe meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss,Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger:But O, what damnèd minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!(Act 3, scene 3, 165–171)
William Shakespeare
you are the cause by which I die
Geoffrey Chaucer
We defy augury. There is special providence inthe fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not tocome, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—thereadiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is'tto leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)
William Shakespeare
When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.
William Shakespeare
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
William Shakespeare
The world is not a theater large enough to display the glory of Christ upon or unfold even half of the unsearchable riches that lie hidden in Him. And such is the deliciousness of this subject, Christ, that were there ten thousand volumes written upon it, they would never become tiring to the heart. We used to say that any one thing can finally tire us and this is true, except about this one eminent thing, Christ, and then one can never tire, for such is the variety of sweetness in Christ.
John Flavel
Mother, I will look to like. If looking liking moves.
William Shakespeare
there is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.
Margaret Cavendish
Bland as a Jesuit sober as a hymn.
William Ernest Henley
None but the brave deserves the fair.
John Dryden
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
William Hazlitt
DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write “whore” upon?
William Shakespeare
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
William Shakespeare
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William Kingdon Clifford
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
Thomas Watson
Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.
William Shakespeare
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.
Roger Bacon
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
William Hazlitt
Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause,But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.
William Shakespeare
The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.
William Penn
the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Francis Bacon
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.
John Clare
The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
A moral sensible and well-bred man Will not affront me and no other can.
William Cowper
Say a day without the ever.
William Shakespeare
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
I know that my singing doesn’t make the moon rise, nor does it make the stars shine. But without my song, the night would seem empty and incomplete. There is more to daybreak than light, just as there is more to nighttime than darkness.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.
Thomas Fuller
Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio’s death,The noise was high. Ha! No more moving?Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were ’t good?I think she stirs again—No. What’s best to do?If she come in, she’ll sure speak to my wife—My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.Oh, insupportable! Oh, heavy hour!Methinks it should be now a huge eclipseOf sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globeShould yawn at alteration.
William Shakespeare
At little more than kin and less than kind.
William Shakespeare
The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.
John Milton
I'll have no husband, if you be not he.
William Shakespeare
There's small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
Mum, mum,He that keeps nor crust nor crumb,Weary of all, shall want some.
William Shakespeare
To be or not to be that is the question.
William Shakespeare
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
George Herbert
Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.
William Penn