Quotes by English Authors - Page 49

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.
Thomas Browne
O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!
William Shakespeare
Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear
John Milton
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
Twice or thrice had I lov'd thee, Before I knew thy face or name
John Donne
The slowest kiss makes too much haste.
Thomas Middleton
The course of true love never did run smooth said by lysander
William Shakespeare
For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.
William Shakespeare
Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?Scorn and derision never come in tears:Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,tIn their nativity all truth appears.How can these things in me seem scorn to you,Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?
William Shakespeare
Viola to Duke Orsino: 'I'll do my bestt t To woo your lady.'[Aside.] 'Yet, a barful strife!t t Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, 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
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
William Shakespeare
Men's eyes were made to look, let them gaze, I will budge for no man's pleasure.
William Shakespeare
These times of woe afford no time to woo.
William Shakespeare
Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
William Shakespeare
Let me feel how thy pulses beat.
Thomas Middleton
Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!
William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.
William Shakespeare
My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.
William Shakespeare
thus with a kiss I die
William Shakespeare
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
Thomas Hobbes
A true saying it is, ‘Desire hath no rest;‘ is infinite in itself, endless; and as one calls it, a perpetual rack, or horse-mill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
Robert Burton
In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Thomas Paine
I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.
Thomas Browne
Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from out their several boxes, takeThy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and makeThyself a constellation of them all;And by their blazing signifyThat a great princess falls, but doth not die.Be thou a new star, that to us portendsEnds of much wonder; and be thou those ends.
John Donne
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William Shakespeare
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth
William Shakespeare
LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
William Shakespeare
LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
William Shakespeare
When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew
William Shakespeare
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. It has been the most dishonourable belief against the character of the divinity, the most destructive to morality, and the peace and happiness of man, that ever was propagated since man began to exist. It is better, far better, that we admitted, if it were possible, a thousand devils to roam at large, and to preach publicly the doctrine of devils, if there were any such, than that we permitted one such impostor and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God in his mouth, and have credit among us.Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death and religious wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called revealed religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man? The lies of the Bible have been the cause of the one, and the lies of the Testament of the other.
Thomas Paine
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
William Shakespeare
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
William Shakespeare
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
Yet some there be that by due steps aspireTo lay their just hands on that golden keyThat opes the palace of Eternity.To such my errand is
John Milton
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones
William Shakespeare
Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle; and the elementsSo mixed in him, that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Francis Bacon
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
William Shakespeare
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Francis Quarles
If we still advise we shall never do.
Elizabeth I
We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent; his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil. For without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced. Nay, an honest man can do no good upon those that are wicked, to reclaim them, without the help of the knowledge of evil.
Francis Bacon
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
William Shakespeare
Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.
William Shakespeare
I observe and remain silent.
Elizabeth I
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
Thomas Paine
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.
Elizabeth I
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Thomas Fuller
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
Thomas Fuller
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare