Quotes by English Authors - Page 8

I can call spirits from the vasty deep."Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?
William Shakespeare
He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:And you all know, securityIs mortals' chiefest enemy.
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
See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets beat the drums!
Thomas Morell
Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.
George Savile Halifax
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakespeare
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.
John Clare
I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.
Thomas Malory
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.
John Clare
When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.
Francis Beaumont
Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.
Francis Bacon
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
God makes and apparel shapes: but it's money that finishes the man.
Thomas Fuller
Enough is as good as a feast.
John Heywood
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrous potency.
William Shakespeare
They say an old man is twice a child
William Shakespeare
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
William Shakespeare
To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation
William Shakespeare
The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!
William Shakespeare
In my mind's eye
William Shakespeare
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
The ripest fruit first falls.
William Shakespeare
#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses. You, as a Christian, probably have a much greater ability to see weakness in other believers than to see strength. It is as if you use a magnifying glass when looking for weakness and a telescope when looking for grace. Brooks warns, "Sin is darkness, grace is light; sin is hell, grace is heaven; and what madness is it to look more at darkness than at light, more at hell than at heaven." Indeed.
Thomas Brooks
Aye me, how many perils do enfoldThe righteous man, to make him daily fall?Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
Edmund Spenser
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
William Shakespeare
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.
John Milton
Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the reporter of a miracle tells a lie.t
Thomas Paine
Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
Francis Bacon
Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.
William Hazlitt
Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
William Cowper
Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
William Shakespeare
No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,My subject is of man, and human kind.
Robert Burton
I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,And yet thou are not there;I fill my arms with thoughts of thee,And press the common air.
John Clare
O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
William Shakespeare
Much rain wears the marble.
William Shakespeare
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
William Hazlitt
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
Aphra Behn
I eat you, life; you make me living eat.
William Kean Seymour
The truth you speak doth lack some gentlenessAnd time to speak it in. You rub the soreWhen you should bring the plaster.
William Shakespeare
Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.
William Penn
Reason is our soul's left hand Faith her right. By this we reach divinity.
John Donne
If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!
Thomas Watson
God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts who best Bear His mild yoke they serve Him best His state Is kingly thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!This was the most unkindest cut of all
William Shakespeare
More in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.
William Hope Hodgson
And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.
William Shakespeare