💬 Quotes

"Look at the history of that country—the one that's lost its mind—and you will see that every single human right it possesses was wrung from its king by force."

"By heavens, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honor by the locks."

"I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humor of your idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world..."

"The better part of valor is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."

"I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?"

"Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock."

"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere; Nor can England brook a double reign, Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind pretty firmly that you will."

"Kindred hearts are not so scarce as I used to think. It's a very good world, a very bright world—when one looks at it with well-wishers in one's eyes."

"True love can never be blind, but if it is wise it is large-hearted, and takes in much more than the mere personality of the beloved object."

"I don't want to diamond-cut my life into any set pattern. I want it to be untrammeled and free, to grow naturally as the wild roses grow."

"Next to being married, a funeral is the most interesting thing that can happen to a woman."

"There is a great deal of comfort in the commonplace. When you are troubled, the familiar things of everyday life are like a soft hand laid upon an aching brow."

"He that depends upon your favours swims with fins of lead and hews down oaks with rushes."

"I banish you! / Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! / Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes, / Fan you into despair!"

"Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink."

"My mind gave me / Suspecting fault, long since, that you hunt for / Friendships which you shall parse hereafter."

"Action is eloquence, and the opinion of the more ignorant is as the muffled drum."

"I muse my mother / Does not approve me further, who was wont / To call them woollen vassals, things created / To buy and sell with groats."

"Though I be king of England, yet am I not king of my own body, to please myself, but my subjects must have their laws, and I must observe them."