Quotes by English Authors - Page 5

None can pray well but he that lives well.
Thomas Fuller
I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
Reason is also choice.
John Milton
Oh God, Oh God! that it were possibleTo undo things done; to call back yesterday!That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,To untell days, and to redeem these hours.
Thomas Heywood
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of fear and pleasure, it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.
Francis Bacon
Either to die the death or to abjureFor ever the society of men.Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;Know of your youth, examine well your blood,Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,You can endure the livery of a nun,For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,To live a barren sister all your life,Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,Than that which withering on the virgin thornGrows, lives and dies in single blessedness.
William Shakespeare
It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.
William Penn
Taffeta phrases silken terms precise Three-piled hyperboles spruce affectation Figures pedantical.
William Shakespeare
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
William Shakespeare
In Heaven, it is always Autumn".
John Donne
They (corporations) cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.
Sir Edward Coke
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
John Donne
Must I observe you? Must I stand & crouchUnder your testy humour? By the gods, You shall digest the venom ofyour spleen,Though it do split you, for, from thisday forth, I'll use you for my mirth, yea,for my laughter, when you are waspish.
William Shakespeare
I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or for fame, or power, or any of these inferior things, but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity. For it was from lust of power that the Angels fell, from lust of knowledge that man fell, but of charity there can be no excess, neither did angel or man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
William Shakespeare
I have drunk,and seen the spider."(Leontine, Act II Scene I)
William Shakespeare
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway;It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice.
William Shakespeare
Let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action.
William Shakespeare
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller
God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.
Thomas Watson
There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.
William Hazlitt
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my furyDo I take part.
William Shakespeare
…So when the last and dreadful hourThis crumbling pageant shall devour,The trumpet shall be heard on high,The dead shall live, the living die,And Music shall untune the sky
John Dryden
These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine
You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person’s thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms… And above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.
William Cory
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.
Sir Francis Bacon
If music be the food of love play on Give me excess of it that surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound.
William Shakespeare
Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech
Colley Cibber
Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage,These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage?The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde,All as I were through the body gryde.My ragged rontes all shiver and shake,As doen high Towers in an earthquake:They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes,Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales.
Edmund Spenser
This tune goes manly.Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;Our lack is nothing but our leave. MacbethIs ripe for shaking, and the powers abovePut on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.The night is long that never finds th
William Shakespeare
Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.DON PEDROYou have put him down, lady, you have put him down.BEATRICESo I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.
William Shakespeare
The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.
Thomas Goodwin
The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
William Shakespeare
He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.
William Shakespeare
They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
John Milton
Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare
[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.
Thomas More
Foul whisperings are abroad.
William Shakespeare
Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
William Shakespeare
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
I'll find a day to massacre them allAnd raze their faction and their family,The cruel father and his traitorous sons,To whom I sued for my dear son's life,And make them know what 'tis to let a queenKneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.
William Shakespeare
I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen
Samuel Richardson
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hathsuch meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
William Shakespeare
Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to good; more wonderfulThan that which by creation first brought forthLight out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand,Whether I should repent me now of sinBy me done, and occasioned; or rejoiceMuch more, that much more good thereof shall spring;To God more glory, more good-will to menFrom God, and over wrath grace shall abound.
John Milton
A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Thomas Fuller
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
RUMOUR:"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage.
William Shakespeare
These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume
William Shakespeare
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
Thomas Deloney
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
William Shakespeare
Prospect is often better than possession.
Thomas Fuller
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.
William Shakespeare
Let him have the key of thy heart who hath the lock of his own.
Sir Thomas Browne
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Robert Burton
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Sir Francis Bacon