Quotes by English Authors - Page 27

For she had eyes and chose me.
William Shakespeare
These violent delights have violent ends.
William Shakespeare
What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in you hand Ah, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
Thomas Dekker
Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
William Shakespeare
I know she hates me, yet cannot choose but love her: No matter, if but to vex her, I'll haunt her still; Though I get nothing else, I'll have my will.
Thomas Middleton
I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.
William Shakespeare
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine
Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved’st him better / Than ever thou loved’st Cassius.
William Shakespeare
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
William Shakespeare
There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.
William Jenkyn
True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?
William Shakespeare
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
John Masefield
by indignities men come to dignities
Francis Bacon
Things past redress are now with me past care.
William Shakespeare
Chese now," quod she, "oon of thise thynges tweye:To han me foul and old til that I deye,And be to yow a trewe, humble wyf,And nevere yow displese in al my lyf,Or elles ye wol han me yong and fair,And take youre aventure of the repairThat shal be to youre hous by cause of me,Or in som oother place, may wel be.Now chese yourselven, wheither that yow liketh.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Oh, I am fortune's fool!
William Shakespeare
And since you know you cannot see yourself,so well as by reflection, I, your glass,will modestly discover to yourself,that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
William Shakespeare
For this new-married man approaching here,Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'dYour well defended honour, you must pardonFor Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--Being criminal, in double violationOf sacred chastity and of promise-breachThereon dependent, for your brother's life,--The very mercy of the law cries outMost audible, even from his proper tongue,'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE
William Shakespeare
Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.
William Shakespeare
Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.
John Milton
Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too.
Thomas Fuller
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?
Francis Bacon
I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare
The best of a bad bargain.
Samuel Pepys
Kindness is goodness hidden in the heartMore often than declared in speech.
William Kean Seymour
He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.
William Shakespeare
To be honest, as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.Hamlet Act II, Scene II Lines 178-179
William Shakespeare
The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
William Shakespeare
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too.
Elizabeth I
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics...
Roger Bacon
All Poets are mad.
Robert Burton
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
William Kingdon Clifford
The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.
William Law
...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...
Jeremiah Burroughs
Father, I do acknowledge and confessThat I this honor, I this pomp have broughtTo Dagon, and advanc’d his praises highamong the Heathen round; to God have broughtDishonor, obloquy, and op’d the mouthsOf Idolists, and Atheists[…]The anguish of my Soul, that suffers notMine eye to harbor sleep, or thoughts to rest.This only hope relieves me, that the strifeWith mee hath end.
John Milton
For trust not him that hath once broken faith
William Shakespeare
Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.
William Shakespeare
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Thomas Fuller
Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.
William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow
William Shakespeare
Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head.
Thomas Love Peacock
Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
The purpose of this pamphlet is to explain how local currencies work. Alone they cannot solve all the multiple financial, social and environmental crises we face, but they are an increasingly important part of the answer.
John Rogers
Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.
William Shakespeare
Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.
William Shakespeare
When God intends a mercy for his people, he stirs up the spirit of prayer in them. Fervency unites the soul and directs the thoughts to the work at hand. It will not allow diversions and denies all foreign thoughts seeking to intrude. Pray fervently or you do nothing. Cold praying is no more prayer than a painting of fire is fire. How can prayers that do not even warm your own heart move God’s? A fervent prayer will never find a cold reception with God. Elijah’s prayer called fire down from heaven because it carried fire up to heaven.
William Gurnall
Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
William Shakespeare
I am as poor as Job my lord but not so patient.
William Shakespeare
Tis the most tender part of love each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
Thick is the darkness-- Sunward, O, sunward!Rough is the highway-- Onward, still onward!Dawn harbors surely East of the shadows.Facing us somewhere Spread the sweet meadows.Upward and forward! Time will restore us:Light is above us, Rest is before us.
William Ernest Henley
O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,
William Shakespeare
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Thomas Brooks
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
John Masefield
love is blindand lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
William Shakespeare
Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest.
William Shakespeare