Quotes by English Authors - Page 20

Courage mounteth with occasion.
William Shakespeare
Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.
John Donne
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
None but the brave deserve the fair.
John Dryden
Where life is more terrible than death it is the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Browne
Tender-handed stroke a nettle and it stings you for your pains Grasp it like a man of mettle and it soft as silk remains.
Thomas Fuller
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
Thomas Fuller
He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
Thomas Fuller
Fortune befriends the bold.
John Dryden
We could be cowards if we had courage enough.
Thomas Fuller
Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
John Dryden
The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.
William Cowper
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.
William Hazlitt
Silence is one great art of conversation.
William Hazlitt
I earn that I eat get that I wear owe no man hate envy no man's happiness glad of other men's good content with my harm.
William Shakespeare
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
William Shakespeare
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
Joseph Addison
Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
William Shakespeare
Conscience does make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare
What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife When Friendship love and peace combine To stamp the marriage bond divine?
William Cowper
Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.
Francis Beaumont
Colors speak all languages.
Joseph Addison
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
Thomas Paine
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
The soul of this man is his clothes.
William Shakespeare
God made the country and man made the town.
William Cowper
The people are the city.
William Shakespeare
Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe
The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.
Sir Henry Wotton
There's small choice in rotten apples.
William Shakespeare
When to elect there is but one Tis Hobson's Choice take that or none.
Thomas Ward
Servant of God well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.
John Milton
To be like Christ is to be a Christian.
William Penn
The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
John Milton
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
Joseph Addison
They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.
Robert Burton
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up
William Shakespeare
I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
Book of Common Prayer
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare
Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.
John Milton
God befriend us as our cause is just!
William Shakespeare
A cat may look at a king.
John Heywood
To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.
William Shakespeare
No-wher so bisy a man as he ter nas And yet he semed bisier that he was.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Cheat me in the price but not in the goods.
Thomas Fuller
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution trying to kill it keeps it alive leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
Thomas Paine
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Izaak Walton
They (corporations) cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.
Sir Edward Coke
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Colley Cibber
None but the brave deserves the fair.
John Dryden
I know on which side my bread is buttered.
John Heywood
Better is half a loaf than no bread.
John Heywood
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare