Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dodie Smith

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.

Dodie Smith

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

William Wycherley

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

William Wycherley

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Aphra Behn

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

John Ciardi

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

Henry Taylor

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Henry Taylor

The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

Henry Taylor

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Thomas Dekker

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Thomas Dekker

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Thomas Otway

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Samuel Foote

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

Tom Stoppard

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.

Thomas Shadwell

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Thomas Carlyle

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

James Shirley

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.