Quotes by English Authors - Page 12

Very often it has come to my mind what men of learning there were formerly throughout England..and how nowadays...we would have to seek them outside...Thanks be to God Almighty that we now have any supply of teachers at all!...As often as you can, free yourself from worldly affairs so that you may apply that wisdom which God gave you wherever you can. Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves didn't cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.
King Alfred the Great
I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.
William Hazlitt
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Queen Elizabeth I
Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.
William Shakespeare
Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my bestt t To woo your lady.'[Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife!t t Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
William Shakespeare
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat.Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay.To-morrow 's falser than the former day;Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blestWith some new joys, cuts off what we possest.Strange cozenage! none would live past years again,Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;And from the dregs of life think to receiveWhat the first sprightly running could not give.
John Dryden
Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool.
William Shakespeare
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
William Shakespeare
you will not be master of my body & my property
Geoffrey Chaucer
If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
Then of thy beauty do I question make,That thou among the wastes of time must go,Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,And die as fast as they see others grow.
William Shakespeare
ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
William Shakespeare
This was the most unkindest cut of all For when the noble Caesar saw him stab Ingratitude more strong than traitor's arm Quite vanquish'd him then burst his mighty heart.
William Shakespeare
God grant us patience!
William Shakespeare
Jesters do often prove prophets.
William Shakespeare
For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breezeBy lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony.
William Shakespeare
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
William Shakespeare
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel?*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
William Shakespeare
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own: He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I have liv'd today.
John Dryden
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumbered hereWhile these visions did appear.And this weak and idle theme,No more yielding but a dream,Gentles, do not reprehend:If you pardon, we will mend:And, as I am an honest Puck,If we have unearned luckNow to 'scape the serpent's tongue,We will make amends ere long;Else the Puck a liar call;So, good night unto you all.Give me your hands, if we be friends,And Robin shall restore amends.
William Shakespeare
Let's be about leaving this world better than we find it each and every day. Our life is a testimony and through us divine loving is becoming more manifest. Greater good is calling upon us here in this world to be done this day. One of my rallying calls is let's go out and do some good. This is who we are. This is what we are about.
John Morton
and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions
Thomas More
Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose." Macbeth
William Shakespeare
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!
William Shakespeare
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
William Shakespeare
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.
William Shakespeare
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
William Penn
Good wombs have borne bad sons."-- (Miranda, I:2)
William Shakespeare
More in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
doctors & druggists wash each other's hands
Geoffrey Chaucer
O sleep O gentle sleep Nature's soft nurse.
William Shakespeare
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The silence of the sea! All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
William Shakespeare
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.
William Shakespeare
Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,
William Shakespeare
Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tra
Thomas Kyd
For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.
William Shakespeare
Make a virtue of necessity.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
Joseph Addison
Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified.
William Shakespeare
A man should always consider ... how much more unhappy he might be than he is.
Joseph Addison
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.
John Donne
true apothecary thy drugs art quick
William Shakespeare
Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
Thomas Percy
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare
Faith is the continuation of reason.
William Adams
Kindness is in a prison till it findsRelease in words or deeds.
William Kean Seymour
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
William Hazlitt
And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.
William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo December when they wed maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
He is idle that might be better employed.
Thomas Fuller
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn