💬 Quotes

"Wie ein Hund! sagte er, es war, als sollte die Scham ihn überleben."

"Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!"

"Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time, Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"He that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up."

"The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd, And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail Are turn'd to one dry wither'd white leaf."

"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself."

"It is impossible to express the general consternation of the poor people at this calamity; for as we were brought to the last extremity, it was not the plague only that afflicted them, but an absolute want of all things, especially of work."

"People began now to be sensible of their danger, and to reflect seriously upon their past lives; and indeed the dreadful terror of the disease made so strange an impression upon their minds that I think I never saw people more reformed."

"In these terrible cases, human natures are rendered frantic and desperate; and many appear to be the proper objects of just terror to themselves, and to abandon all humanity."

"Never was such a time or place known in these nations; hunger and thirst for bread and water was not so much the cry, as for life and health; and for those who were sick, for physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries."

"The face of London was now indeed strangely altered; I mean the whole mass of buildings, city, liberties, suburbs, Westminster, Southwark, and altogether: for all sorts of carriages and horses ceased to appear."

"A plague is a formidable enemy which it is scarce possible for a great city to bear up under; and though it cannot be said that all the inhabitants died, yet the greater part of them died morally, by their abandoning all care of themselves."

"Selfishness is a vice so hateful that no man will acknowledge it in himself, and few will recognize it in other people unless they are entirely blinded by personal animosity."

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."

"Things that are meant for our general good are sometimes exceedingly uncomfortable."

"Do other men, for they would do you, that's the true business precept."

"Hope is an expensive species of amusement, which costs a great deal of money and brings in very little return."

"The memory of innocent happiness is a good thing to carry into the grave."

"Ceux qui n'ont jamais eu de moulin ne savent pas ce que c'est que la vie, l'indépendance, la joie de respirer à plein poumons sur une colline."