Quotes by English Authors - Page 8

A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Joseph Addison
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Thomas Gray
Praise the sea but keep on land.
George Herbert
The insolence of office.
William Shakespeare
I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Sir Francis Bacon
Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.
William Shakespeare
I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
William Shakespeare
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
William Shakespeare
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Thomas Gray
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will bring.
Thomas Fuller
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
William Shakespeare
We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
William Hazlitt
In the clutch of circumstance I have not winced or cried aloud Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody but unbowed.
William E. Henley
What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.
Thomas Fuller
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
John Dryden
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
All is well that ends well.
John Heywood
Making night hideous.
William Shakespeare
There's villainous news abroad.
William Shakespeare
A plague o' both your houses.
William Shakespeare
The image of God cut in ebony.
Thomas Fuller
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
Thomas Fuller
A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
William Penn
For Art may err but Nature cannot miss.
John Dryden
Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!
John Milton
To hold as 't were the mirror up to nature.
William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
The man that hath no music in himself Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds Is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
William Shakespeare
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
All of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
John Milton
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
William Congreve
Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever I could not sing an air to save my life but I have the intensest delight in music and can detect good from bad.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
Francis Bacon
Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.
William Shakespeare
For murder though it have no tongue will speak With most miraculous organ.
William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
We had as lief not be as not be ourselves.
William Hazlitt
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Thomas Fuller
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
William Hazlitt
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
William Penn
Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
William Cowper
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Thomas Gray
Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.
Thomas Fuller
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
John Selden
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden
The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
William Shakespeare
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Sir Francis Bacon
One religion is as true as another.
Henry Burton
Religion if in heavenly truths attired Needs only to be seen to be admired.
William Cowper
A good life is the only religion.
Thomas Fuller