Quotes by English Authors - Page 2

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole Its body brevity and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.
William Shakespeare
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.
William Hazlitt
Thy wish was father to that thought.
William Shakespeare
Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.
Thomas Fuller
The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Night is the mother of counsels.
George Herbert
An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.
John Heywood
Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!
William Shakespeare
Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
Thomas Fuller
Wickedness is weakness.
John Milton
Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.
Sir Francis Bacon
He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Thomas Fuller
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Thomas Fuller
I must be cruel Only to be kind.
William Shakespeare
For some must watch while some must sleep thus runs the world away.
William Shakespeare
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard.
William Shakespeare
Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
Thomas Fuller
The brazen throat of war.
John Milton
O war! thou son of Hell!
William Shakespeare
War he sung is toil and trouble Honour but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
War is the trade of kings.
John Dryden
We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
William Shakespeare
Her voice was ever soft Gentle and low an excellent thing in woman.
William Shakespeare
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone I build My castles in the air.
Thomas Love Peacock
Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.
Sir Francis Bacon
Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
John Milton
The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon
Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.
John Milton
I'll habits gather by unseen degrees As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas.
John Dryden
There's a small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.
Thomas Browne
Many without punishment none without sin.
John Ray
They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton
Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice and inconstancy in pursuing them are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.
Joseph Addison
Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour.
William Cowper
Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon
One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
William Hazlitt
My man's as true as steel.
William Shakespeare
Trust thyself only and another shall not betray thee.
Thomas Fuller
Trust in God and keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.
John Dryden
I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
William Shakespeare
All kings and all their favourites All glory of honours beauties wits The sun itself which makes time as they pass Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw Only our love hath no decay This no to-morrow hath nor yesterday Running it never runs from us away But truly keeps his first last everlasting day.
John Donne
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
To take arms against a sea of troubles.
William Shakespeare
Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.
Izaak Walton
Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)
William Shakespeare
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!
William Cowper
When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.
William Shakespeare
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own: He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst for I have liv'd today.
John Dryden
There's a time for all things.
William Shakespeare
The time is out of joint.
William Shakespeare
O call back yesterday bid time return.
William Shakespeare
Make use of time let not advantage slip.
William Shakespeare
These are the times that try men's souls.
Thomas Paine
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare