Quotes by English Authors - Page 11

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water - they are good servants but bad masters.
Roger I'Estrange
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
Next to God thy parents.
William Penn
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
William Hazlitt
The world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Thomas Fuller
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Thomas Fuller
The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.
William Penn
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
William Hazlitt
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.
Thomas Fuller
My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.
William Hazlitt
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Thomas Fuller
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.
John Dryden
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.
William Hazlitt
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon
Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.
William Penn
Time is the king of men.
William Shakespeare
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
John Milton
Time is the rider that breaks youth.
George Herbert
Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.
William Penn
Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate.
Joseph Hall
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
Make use of time let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare
I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
William Shakespeare
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Queen Elizabeth I
A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Thomas Gray
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
The insolence of office.
William Shakespeare
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
William Shakespeare
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
William Shakespeare
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
Thomas Fuller
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
William Shakespeare
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
William Hazlitt
In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.
William E. Henley
What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.
Thomas Fuller
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
John Dryden
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
All is well that ends well.
John Heywood
If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.
Joseph Addison
Making night hideous.
William Shakespeare
There's villainous news abroad.
William Shakespeare
A plague o' both your houses.
William Shakespeare