Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?

Charles Lamb

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

Chanakya

Love is indicated by deeds (and not by words)

Chanakya

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.

William Shakespeare

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

John Greenleaf Whittier

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

William Shakespeare

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

William Shakespeare

Words pay no debts, give her deeds.

William Shakespeare

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.

William Shakespeare

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.

William Shakespeare

For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.

William Shakespeare

Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.

Cesare Pavese

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

Cesare Pavese

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Carl Jung

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

Jon Corzine

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

Bertrand Russell

Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.

Elizabeth I

Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.

Bayard Taylor

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

Ashley Montagu

The only measure of what you believe is what you do.

Brian Jacques

Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

Brendan Behan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

Juvenal

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

Juvenal

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

Kenneth Branagh

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

Lech Walesa

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Charles Eastman

Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning.