Quotes by English Authors - Page 35

Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon for man's offenceTo heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,And where the river of bliss through midst of heavenRolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:With these that never fade the spirits electBind their resplendent locks.
John Milton
... when I see kings lying by those who deposed them,... or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Joseph Addison
OH ROMEO. THOU ART ROMEO. WILL YOU MARRY ME. THOU ART ROMEO.
William Shakespeare
Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.
William Shakespeare
There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.
Thomas Fuller
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
William Shakespeare
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?
William Shakespeare
What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.
William Shakespeare
More are men's ends marked than their lives before.The setting sun, the music at the close,As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
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 their proper figures.
Joseph Addison
I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Men should be what they seem.
William Shakespeare
If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - (Act III, scene I).
William Shakespeare
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare
Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than they sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
John Milton
I can look a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture, though it be but of an horse.
Thomas Browne
Timon: I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.
William Shakespeare
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Thomas More
Now to enjoy the treasures of God in the similitude of God, is the most perfect blessedness God could devise. For the treasures of God are the most perfect treasures, and the manner of God is the most perfect manner.
Thomas Traherne
She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.
William Shakespeare
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.
William Shakespeare
They are rich who have true friends.
Thomas Fuller
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print
John Clare
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.
William Hazlitt
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)
William Shakespeare
The worst is not so long as we can say "This is the worst."
William Shakespeare
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
Thomas Fuller
She vied so fast, protesting oath after oath,that in a twink she won me to her love.O, you are novices. 'Tis a world to seeHow tame, when men and women are alone,A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.
William Shakespeare
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
...what care I for words? Yet words do wellWhen he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
William Shakespeare
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
John Milton
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
The soul of this man is his clothes.
William Shakespeare
If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
William Shakespeare
He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty.
William Shakespeare
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
Francis Bacon
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as whenThe bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,Her ashes new-create another heirAs great in admiration as herself.
William Shakespeare
When the religious Cowper confesses in the opening lines of his address to the famous Yardley oak, that the sense of awe and reverence it inspired in him would have made him bow himself down and worship it but for the happy fact that his mind was illumined with the knowledge of the truth, he is but saying what many feel without in most cases recognizing the emotion for what it is—the sense of the supernatural in nature.
William Henry Hudson
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
Her voice was ever soft Gentle and low an excellent thing in woman.
William Shakespeare
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
Thomas Brooks
people have managed to marry without arithmetic
Geoffrey Chaucer
Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.
John Milton
Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the work of masonry,Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burnThe living record of your memory.'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmityShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find roomEven in the eyes of all posterityThat wear this world out to the ending doom.So, till judgement that yourself arise,You in this, and dwell in lovers eyes.
William Shakespeare
Oh, devil, devil!If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears,Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.Out of my sight!
William Shakespeare
At his funeral the priest's words applied signally to him: 'The Christian Brothers are a body of men who live without luxury, labour without emolument, and die without notice, that they might stamp God's image on the soul of youth. That surely is a splendid vocation.
Edmund Campion
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.
John Dryden
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,That can sing both high and low:Trip no further, pretty sweeting;Journeys end in lovers meeting,Every wise man's son doth know.What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;Present mirth hath present laughter;What's to come is still unsure:In delay there lies not plenty;Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,Youth's a stuff will not endure.
William Shakespeare
In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men blush not in actions blacker than the night, will 'schew no course to keep them from the light. One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke. Poison and treason are the hands of sin; Ay, and the targets to put off the shame. Then, lest my life be cropped to keep you clear, By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear.
William Shakespeare
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?Scorn and derision never come in tears:Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,tIn their nativity all truth appears.How can these things in me seem scorn to you,Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?
William Shakespeare
For some must watch while some must sleep thus runs the world away.
William Shakespeare
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,Nor the furious winter's rages;
William Shakespeare
The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.
Thomas Fuller
Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel.
Francis Bacon
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
William Law
This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.
Thomas Browne