Quotes by English Authors - Page 9

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.
William Shakespeare
That he is mad 'tis true 'tis true 'tis pity And pity 'tis 'tis true.
William Shakespeare
Of all mad matches never was the likeBeing mad herself, she’s madly mated.
William Shakespeare
Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.
John Milton
Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
AH the fat's in the fire.
John Marston
Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds. Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare
How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, Reason none, If what parts, can so remain.
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
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
William Shakespeare
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
We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of our corruptions; that it may not only be a sign to represent, but an instrument to convey, Christ to us, and a seal to assure us of our heavenly jointure [union].
Thomas Watson
Thy wish was father to that thought.
William Shakespeare
One man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
RUMOUR:"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.
William Shakespeare
If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Thomas Fuller
A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller
No man is an island, entire of itself.
John Donne
I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
John Milton
Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
For all that beauty that doth cover theeIs but the seemly raiment of my heart,Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me.How can I then be elder than thou art?
William Shakespeare
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.
William Shakespeare
Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
Joseph Addison
How blest am I in this discovering thee!To enter in these bonds is to be free;Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be. Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be
John Donne
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
William Shakespeare
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Francis Bacon
Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
John Milton
Timon: I’ll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.
William Shakespeare
Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.
William Shakespeare
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.
William Shakespeare
Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.
Sir Francis Bacon
An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.
John Heywood
She deceiving I believing What need lovers wish for more?
Sir Charles Sedley
And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.
Thomas Paine
I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!
William Shakespeare
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
William Shakespeare
Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest of men that have dominion, ‘that the three angles of a triangle should be equal to two angles of a square,’ that doctrine should have been, if not disputed, yet by the burning of all books of geometry suppressed, as far as he whom it concerned was able.
Thomas Hobbes
A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said,Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied.But now she's laid; what though she be?Yet there are more delays, for where is he?He comes and passeth through sphere after sphere;First her sheets, then her arms, then anywhere.Let not this day, then, but this night be thine;Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine.
John Donne
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!O any thing, of nothing first create!O heavy lightness, serious vanity,Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
William Shakespeare
Want the mistress of invention.
Susanna Centlivre
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 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, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
William Shakespeare
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Sir Thomas Browne
- Where is Polonius?- In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i' the other place yourself.
William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is man!
William Shakespeare
What's done can't be undone.
William Shakespeare
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
Thomas Paine
They do not love, that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.
William Shakespeare
May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here.
William Lenthall
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
Thomas Brooks
A man surprised is half beaten.
Thomas Fuller
Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.
William Shakespeare
Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.
Thomas Fuller
The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.
William Hurrell Mallock
It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.
Thomas Fuller