Quotes by English Authors - Page 15

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
William Shakespeare
Houses are built to live in and not to look on.
Sir Francis Bacon
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.
William Shakespeare
Appetite with an opinion of attaining is called hope the same without such opinion despair.
Thomas Hobbes
Where no hope is left is left no fear.
John Milton
All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.
Julian of Norwich
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
Robert Burton
Hope is one of the principal springs that keep mankind in motion.
Thomas Fuller
The miserable have no medicine but hope.
William Shakespeare
Hope! Of all the ills that men endure the only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley
If it were not for hopes the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
Hope! of all ills that men endure The only cheap and universal cure.
Abraham Cowley
Hope is the poor man's bread.
George Herbert
Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Ay sir to be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
William Shakespeare
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all all honourable men.
William Shakespeare
Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word.
William Shakespeare
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.
Thomas Fuller
The honester the man the worse luck.
John Ray
Every man has his fault and honesty is his.
William Shakespeare
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare
God made him and therefore let him pass for a man.
William Shakespeare
For a man's home is his castle.
Sir Edward Coke
See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets beat the drums!
Thomas Morell
The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground.
Thomas Overbury
He's a chip o' th' old block.
William Rowley
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
Sir Philip Sidney
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Charity begins at home but should not end there.
Thomas Fuller
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
Sir Thomas Browne
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do for any fellow being let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
All hell broke loose.
John Milton
The cunning livery of hell.
William Shakespeare
Help me Cassius or I sink!
William Shakespeare
God helps those who help themselves.
Algernon Sidney
A heaven on earth.
John Milton
The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.
Thomas Fuller
A mighty pain to love it is and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all pains the greatest pain it is to love but love in vain.
Abraham Cowley
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.
John Donne
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at I am not what I am.
William Shakespeare
Little pitchers have wide ears.
George Herbert
Went in at the one ear and out at the other.
John Heywood
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
John Milton
Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears.
William Shakespeare
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare
Dry August and warm Doth harvest no harm.
Thomas Tusser
He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.
John Masefield
Happiness depends as Nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Robert Burton
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heart-felt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper