Quotes by English Authors - Page 24

The past can not be cured.
Elizabeth I
The more haste the less speed.
John Heywood
He reads much;He is a great observer and he looksQuite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spiritThat could be moved to smile at any thing.Such men as he be never at heart's easeWhiles they behold a greater than themselves,And therefore are they very dangerous.
William Shakespeare
Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears.
William Shakespeare
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!
William Shakespeare
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
Elizabeth I
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
Thomas More
I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way
Thomas Paine
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark
Thomas Hobbes
We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.
Alcuin
BOYETA mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.MARIAWide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.COSTARDIndeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.BOYETAn if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.COSTARDThen will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.MARIACome, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.COSTARDShe's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl.BOYETI fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.Exeunt BOYET and MARIA
William Shakespeare
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems; Even the dearest that I loved the best Are strange—nay, rather, stranger than the rest.
John Clare
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me;Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths allBolted against me.Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers,Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors,I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentenceWorse than Abiram's.Him the vindictive rod of angry JusticeSent quick and howling to the centre headlong;I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, amBuried above ground.
William Cowper
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare
The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.
William Shakespeare
Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.
William Shakespeare
Fraily thy name is woman!
William Shakespeare
No medicine is more valuable none more efficacious none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
Sir Thomas Browne
There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.
Thomas Brooks
A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There's meaning in thy snores.
William Shakespeare
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?
Nicholas Rowe
The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.
Thomas Brooks
The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas More
What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.
Joseph Addison
For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
William Shakespeare
It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an apology for the injustice, that were a workman to receive an increase of wages daily he would not save it against old age, nor be much better for it in the interim.
Thomas Paine
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
William Shakespeare
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
Thomas Paine
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
Thomas Fuller
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Thomas Fuller
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
John Dryden
But for my own part it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare
These blessed candles of the night.
William Shakespeare
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,When other petty griefs have done their spite,But in the onset come: so shall I tasteAt first the very worst of fortune’s might;And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,Compar’d with loss of thee will not seem so.
William Shakespeare
So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.
William Jay
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
William Shakespeare
God the first garden made and the first city Cain.
Abraham Cowley
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.
Francis Bacon
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'stBut in his motion like an angel sings,Still quiring [making music] to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls,But whilst this muddy vesture of decayDoth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
William Shakespeare
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation
William Shakespeare
O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been.
William Shakespeare
O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!
William Shakespeare
I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.
William Shakespeare
But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the bosom of dim NightA glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins her farthest verge, and Chaos to retireAs from her outmost works a broken foeWith tumult less and with less hostile din,
John Milton
Penny wise pound foolish.
Henry Burton
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
William Shakespeare
For love is a celestial harmonyOf likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent,Which join together in sweet sympathy,To work each other's joy and true content,Which they have harbour'd since their first descentOut of their heavenly bowers, where they did seeAnd know each other here belov'd to be.
Edmund Spenser
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.
Francis Beaumont
He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
Gold begets in brethren hate Gold in families debate Gold does friendship separate Gold does civil wars create.
Abraham Cowley
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The curse of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare