Quotes by English Authors - Page 14

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
But for my own part it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
I take all knowledge to be my province.
Sir Francis Bacon
For knowledge too is itself a power.
Sir Francis Bacon
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller
All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
William Hazlitt
A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
Joseph Addison
God's mill grinds slow but sure.
George Herbert
This bond is forfeit And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh.
William Shakespeare
Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though lock'd up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
William Shakespeare
At little more than kin and less than kind.
William Shakespeare
Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
William Shakespeare
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
William Shakespeare
Forbear to judge for we are sinners all.
William Shakespeare
Give every man thine ear but few thy voice Take each man's censure but reserve thy judgment.
William Shakespeare
O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts And men have lost their reason!
William Shakespeare
Are you good men and true?
William Shakespeare
The jury passing on the prisoner's life May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.
William Shakespeare
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands organs dimensions senses affections passions? fed with die same food hurt with the same weapons subject to the same diseases healed by the same means warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is?
William Shakespeare
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.
William Shakespeare
Sweets with sweets war not joy delights in joy.
William Shakespeare
A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!
William Shakespeare
Alas poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest of most excellent fancy.
William Shakespeare
Jesters do often prove prophets.
William Shakespeare
Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
Want the mistress of invention.
Susanna Centlivre
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Sir Francis Bacon
The smaller the drink the clearer the head.
William Penn
O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
William Shakespeare
It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any.
William Penn
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.
Joseph Addison
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
Thomas Fuller
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.
William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.
William Shakespeare
Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Though this be madness yet there is method in 't.
William Shakespeare
Had laws not been we never had been blam'd For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.
William Davenant
That he is mad 'tis true 'tis true 'tis pity And pity 'tis 'tis true.
William Shakespeare
The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
This was the most unkindest cut of all For when the noble Caesar saw him stab Ingratitude more strong than traitor's arm Quite vanquish'd him then burst his mighty heart.
William Shakespeare
Where ignorance is bliss Tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare
He is idle that might be better employed.
Thomas Fuller
Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
William Hazlitt
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.
John Milton
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo December when they wed.
William Shakespeare
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
William Shakespeare
The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us.
Sir Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon
There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.
Joseph Addison