Quotes by English Authors - Page 7

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Edmund Spenser
Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.
William Congreve
Oh love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
John Fletcher
They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.
Henry Burton
Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.
John Heywood
For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Sir Francis Bacon
There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare
Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.
William Shakespeare
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Alcuin
Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.
John Milton
Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.
William Collins
It is the mind that maketh good of ill that maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser
One sword keeps another in the sheath.
George Herbert
The more haste the less speed.
John Heywood
And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
Weep no more lady weep no more Thy sorrow is in vain For violets plucked the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.
Thomas Percy
Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.
Thomas Hobbes
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.
John Milton
Give me that man That is not passion's slave.
William Shakespeare
Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth.
Thomas Fuller
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water - they are good servants but bad masters.
Roger I'Estrange
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
Good-night good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
Next to God thy parents.
William Penn
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
William Hazlitt
The world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A coward's fear can make a coward valiant.
Thomas Fuller
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
Thomas Fuller
The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.
William Penn
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.
William Hazlitt
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Thomas Fuller
To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.
Robert Burton
Comparison more than reality makes men happy or wretched.
Thomas Fuller
My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.
William Hazlitt
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.
Thomas Fuller
If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon
Stiff in opinion always in the wrong.
John Dryden
Time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon
Time is the author of authors.
Francis Bacon
Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.
William Penn
Time is the king of men.
William Shakespeare
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
John Milton
Come what may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.
William Penn
Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate.
Joseph Hall
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than the dull prospect of a distant good.
John Dryden
I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
William Shakespeare
All my possessions for a moment of time.
Queen Elizabeth I