Quotes by English Authors - Page 4

These blessed candles of the night.
William Shakespeare
And thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare
For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad so tender yet so true.
William Shenstone
If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
William Shakespeare
More in sorrow than in anger.
William Shakespeare
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
William Shakespeare
When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!
William Shakespeare
I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd - "How sweet how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.
William Cowper
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.
William Shakespeare
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Thomas Gray
How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!
William Collins
To sleep! perchance to dream ay there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil Must give us pause.
William Shakespeare
O sleep O gentle sleep Nature's soft nurse.
William Shakespeare
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds great nature's second course Chief nourisher in life's feast.
William Shakespeare
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.
George Herbert
I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.
William Shakespeare
I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear.
William Shakespeare
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
William Hazlitt
He that falls into sin is a man that grieves at it is a saint that boasteth of it is a devil.
Thomas Fuller
So many laws argue so many sins.
John Milton
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
William Shakespeare
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt
Vessels never give so great a sound as when they are empty.
Bishop John Jewell
Ships are but boards sailors but men.
William Shakespeare
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
Henry Burton
O shame! Where is they blush?
William Shakespeare
My heart is ever at your service.
William Shakespeare
I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.
William E. Henley
Servant of God well done.
John Milton
The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.
John Donne
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.
Sir Thomas Browne
Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Thomas Fuller
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.
William Shakespeare
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.
Thomas Morton
We know what we are but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
I to myself am dearer than a friend.
William Shakespeare
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
Skill and confidence are an uncon-quered army.
George Herbert
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
John Milton
Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.
John Milton
They conquer who believe they can.
John Dryden
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
As is our confidence so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt
Self-love my liege is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
William Hazlitt
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
William Hazlitt
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh
We cannot all be masters.
William Shakespeare
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
William Hazlitt
Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.
William Hale White
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
No man does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
William Cowper
I know that's a secret for it's whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
A glory gilds the sacred page Majestic like the sun It gives a light to every age It gives but borrows none.
William Cowper