Quotes by English Authors - Page 8

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
Sigh no more ladies sigh no more Men were deceivers ever One foot in sea and one on shore To one thing constant never.
William Shakespeare
The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.
George Herbert
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
Thomas Paine
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
William Hazlitt
That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.
Robert Burton
it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance
William Shakespeare
When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew
William Shakespeare
My love is as a fever, longing stillFor that which longer nurseth the disease;Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,The uncertain sickly appetite to please.My reason, the physician to my love,Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,Hath left me, and I desperate now approve,Desire his death, which physic did except.Past cure I am, now reason is past care,And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,At random from the truth vainly express'd;For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
William Shakespeare
For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.
William Shakespeare
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William Shakespeare
Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)
William Shakespeare
The only shame is the sin.
Aphra Behn
If I be waspish, best beware my sting.
William Shakespeare
My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
Elizabeth I
For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.
William Shakespeare
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
Men of few words are the best men."(3.2.41)
William Shakespeare
What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced.
Thomas Paine
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
Thomas Paine
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
William Shakespeare
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
Thomas More
Drink today and drown all sorrow You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
John Fletcher
A mere wilderness, as you see, even now in December; but in summer a complete nursery of briers, a forest of thistles, a plantation of nettles, without any live stock but goats, that have eaten up all the bark of the trees. Here you see is the pedestal of a statue, with only half a leg and four toes remaining: there were many here once. When I was a boy, I used to sit every day on the shoulders of Hercules: what became of him I have never been able to ascertain. Neptune has been lying these seven years in the dust-hole; Atlas had his head knocked off to fit him for propping a shed; and only the day before yesterday we fished Bacchus out of the horse-pond.
Thomas Love Peacock
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
An old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare
And thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.
William Shakespeare
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply we esteem too lightly 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
Thomas More
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
Francis Quarles
But evil is always illusion. It insists on the lie that we can have something for ourselves. This is the sole principle at work in hell. Lucifer chose to believe it; or, since it is unimaginable that he actually could have believed it, then we may say that he chose to pretend it might be. Very well, says Truth, you may pretend this. But the pretense will be, literally, your undoing. It will unmake you. You will have opted for something that is not, namely, a lie. Hell is built of lies.
Thomas Howard
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
John Milton
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
William Cowper
The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion and does not seek to make converts to it.
William Hazlitt
Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon
Man being made reasonable and so a thinking creature there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his thoughts since upon this depends both his usefulness to the public and his own present and future benefit in all respects.
William Penn
But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?
Julian of Norwich
Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.
William Shakespeare
Reason is the life of the law nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason.
Sir Edward Coke
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
William Cowper
As vivacity is the gift of women gravity is that of men.
Joseph Addison
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter some of them in hell.
Henry Burton
His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.
William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.So shows a snowy dove trooping with crowsAs yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
Roger Bacon
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.
William Shakespeare
Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.
Abraham Cowley
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
William Shakespeare
In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.
Daniel Defoe
We number nothing that we spend for you;Our duty is so rich, so infinite,That we may do it still without accompt.Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,That we, like savages, may worship it.
William Shakespeare
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.
Thomas Paine