Quotes by English Authors - Page 13

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me: no nor woman neidier though by your smiling you seem to say so.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!
William Shakespeare
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
John Dryden
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt
What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.
Francis Quarles
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.
John Dryden
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure without him live no life.
John Milton
Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them - but not for love.
William Shakespeare
Ay me! for aught that I ever could read Could ever hear by tale or history The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
Give me my Romeo and when he shall die. Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
Love sought is good but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.
John Donne
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.
William Congreve
If yet I have not all thy love love Dear I shall never have it all.
John Donne
The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas More
Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.
Thomas Fuller
I am two fools I know for loving and saying so.
John Donne
Alas! how light a cause may move dissention between hearts that love!
Thomas More
Love is nature's second son.
George Chapman
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine if a Clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the lesse as well as if a Promontorie were as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
John Donne
Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Francis Bacon
Chaucer I confess is a rough diamond and must be polished e'er he shines.
John Dryden
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
William Shakespeare
What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles to be sure but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
Better to be happy than wise.
John Heywood
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Joseph Addison
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
William Hazlitt
Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
William Shakespeare
A light heart lives long.
William Shakespeare
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Thomas Fuller
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
One man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
Such as we are made of such we be.
William Shakespeare
Population when unchecked increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Robert Malthus
Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties.
John Milton
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
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
None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.
John Milton
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
William Shakespeare
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.
Thomas Fuller
Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a King and of a King of England too.
Elizabeth I
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
William Hazlitt
The law hath not been dead though it hath slept.
William Shakespeare
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
The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.
William Shakespeare
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber
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
Be you never so high the law is above you.
Thomas Fuller