Quotes by English Authors - Page 19

For when the wine is in the wit is out.
Thomas Becon
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
To be or not to be that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them?
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon
Let your own discretion be your tutor suit the action to the word the word to the action.
William Shakespeare
The better part of valour is discretion.
William Shakespeare
Now is the Winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare
God grant us patience!
William Shakespeare
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
This too shall pass.
William Shakespeare
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs and a nation with saddles on their backs.
Algernon Sidney
There is a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
He will give the devil his due.
William Shakespeare
The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.
Francis Bacon
The soul of dispatch is decision.
William Hazlitt
Reason with most people means their own opinions.
William Hazlitt
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton
If the world will be gulled let it be gulled.
Robert Burton
Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.
George Herbert
Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
William Shakespeare
I am dying Egypt dying.
William Shakespeare
To die: - to sleep: No more and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.
William Shakespeare
Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
William Shakespeare
He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare
Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
John Donne
Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.
Thomas Hobbes
Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.
John Donne
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
William Shakespeare
No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.
William Shakespeare
All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Thomas Browne
One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more Death thou shalt die.
John Donne
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare
What a day may bring a day may take away.
Thomas Fuller
I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.
William Shakespeare
It is always darkest just before .the day dawneth.
Thomas Fuller
My son is my son till he have got him a wife But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
Thomas Fuller
If thy daughter marry well thou hast found a son if not thou hast lost a daughter.
Francis Quarles
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
John Milton
The mob has many heads but no brains.
Thomas Fuller
I must be cruel only to be kind.
William Shakespeare
Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
Sir Francis Bacon
The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.
Thomas Fuller
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
Thomas Fuller
The world's a scene of changes and to be constant in nature is inconstancy.
Abraham Cowley
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. 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
A moral sensible and well-bred man Will not affront me and no other can.
William Cowper
Cowards falter but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
Queen Elizabeth I
But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.
William Shakespeare
We would be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.
Joseph Addison