Quotes by English Authors - Page 21

Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.
Thomas Tusser
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's image but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself kills the image of God as it were in the eye.
John Milton
We may be willing to tell a story twice never to hear it more than once.
William Hazlitt
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Sir Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.
John Harington
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
John Milton
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.
Sir Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs Being purged a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
William Shakespeare
She deceiving I believing What need lovers wish for more?
Sir Charles Sedley
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Henry Burton
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
Francis Quarles
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
Sir Francis Bacon
The best of a bad bargain.
Samuel Pepys
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?
William Law
Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
Joseph Addison
Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller
A good life fears not life nor death.
Thomas Fuller
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
William Congreve
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.
Thomas Fuller
Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies Til the dappled dawn doth rise.
John Milton
Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden
Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
William Congreve
Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.
Thomas Fuller
Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
William Shakespeare
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton
When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man.
William Shakespeare
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
William Cowper
Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
John Donne
Old foxes want no tutors.
Thomas Fuller
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
William Hazlitt
But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle The bren as I best kan now most I selle.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Sir Francis Bacon
Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare
An old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare
Advice is like snow the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
William Hazlitt
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
William Hazlitt
Sweet are the uses of adversity Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
Prosperity provideth but adversity proveth friends.
Queen Elizabeth I
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
No pain no palm no thorns no throne no gall no glory no cross no crown.
William Penn
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.
Francis Quarles
Remorse begets reform.
William Cowper
If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude which in morals is the heroical virtue.
Francis Bacon
What's done can't be undone.
William Shakespeare
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison
Why then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
Action is eloquence.
William Shakespeare