William Makepeace Thackeray

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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I would rather make my name than inherit it.
William Makepeace Thackeray

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace Thackeray

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray

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Biography
Type: Novelist
Nationality: English
Born: July 18, 1811
Died: December 24, 1863

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William Hazlitt

Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. William HazlittIf you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. William HazlittMen of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. William Hazlitt The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. William Hazlitt When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. William HazlittWithout the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt

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William Ralph Inge

Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. William Ralph IngeEvents in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. William Ralph Inge The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph IngeThere is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' William Ralph IngeIt takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)

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William Ellery Channing

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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
William Ellery Channing

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.
William Ellery Channing

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
William Ellery Channing

Error is discipline through which we advance.
William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
William Ellery Channing

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
William Ellery Channing

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
William Ellery Channing

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
William Ellery Channing

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
William Ellery Channing

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
William Ellery Channing

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
William Ellery Channing

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
William Ellery Channing

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
William Ellery Channing

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.
William Ellery Channing

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing

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Type: Writer
Nationality: American
Born: April 7, 1780
Died: October 2, 1842

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William James

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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
William James

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
William James

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
William James

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
William James

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James

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Type: Philosopher
Nationality: American
Born: January 11, 1842
Died: August 26, 1910

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William S. Burroughs

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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs

A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. Burroughs

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
William S. Burroughs

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
William S. Burroughs

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
William S. Burroughs

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. Burroughs

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. Burroughs

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
William S. Burroughs

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
William S. Burroughs

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs

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Type: Writer
Nationality: American
Born: February 5, 1914
Died: August 2, 1997

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William Langland

Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total Necessity has no law. William Langland There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame. William LanglandWho will bell the cat? William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman

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William S. Burroughs

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A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs

A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. Burroughs

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
William S. Burroughs

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
William S. Burroughs

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
William S. Burroughs

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. Burroughs

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William S. Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. Burroughs

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
William S. Burroughs

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
William S. Burroughs

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
William S. Burroughs

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs

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Type: Writer
Nationality: American
Born: February 5, 1914
Died: August 2, 1997

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Sir William Preece

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

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William Butler Yeats

Showing quotations 1 to 4 of 4 total A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler YeatsAn aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick. William Butler YeatsAnd say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler YeatsThink like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats

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Douglas William Jerrold

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Douglas William Jerrold

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Douglas William Jerrold

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas William Jerrold

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Douglas William Jerrold

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas William Jerrold

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Douglas William Jerrold

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Douglas William Jerrold

The sharp employ the sharp.
Douglas William Jerrold

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Douglas William Jerrold

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold

We love peace, but not peace at any price.
Douglas William Jerrold

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Type: Dramatist
Nationality: English
Born: January 3, 1803
Died: June 8, 1857

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Prince William, Kate Middleton Visit Los Angeles' Skid Row

Just hours after meeting with some of the most powerful people in Hollywood at a black-tie affair, Prince William and Kate Middleton made a visit to Los Angeles' Skid Row on Sunday.

The couple -- now officially known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge -- visited the Inner City Arts academy, where they were greeted by six elementary students holding a welcome sign. Also there to welcome the couple was a crowd of 150 people, some waving British and American flags, according to the Associated press.

STORY: Kate Middleton, Prince William: Full BAFTA L.A. Guest List

During the visit, school president and CEO Cynthia Harnisch met with the couple to talk about Skid Row and the poverty and homelessness that many of the students face.

The duke and duchess also met with several children working on art projects. They donned art smocks and sat at easels as a group of fifth-graders helped them create mandalas, a type of Buddhis painting, and also visited with a group of children in a ceramics studio working on a giant tortoise, which will be placed in the school's cactus garden.

STORY: Prince William and Kate Middleton's Hollywood Visit: Inside the BAFTA Event

During the visit, Middleton was wearing a cream-colored pleated skirt with a black lace top and black high heels.

The stop comes just hours after the couple met with a slew of industry-ites Saturday night at the inaugural black-tie BAFTA Brits to Watch at downtown L.A.'s Belasco Theater.

The royal support was to "spotlight the depth and range of young British talent" with 42 youthful creatives chosen to attend.

STORY: Kate Middleton, Prince William Attend Wimbledon

Among the 280 guests at the private event were Sony's Sir Howard Stringer, Peter Chernin, Harvey Weinstein, Fox's Tom Rothman, Warner Bros.' Bruce Rosenblum, Disney's Rich Ross and Anne Sweeney, Universal's Donna Langley, Barbra Streisand and James Brolin, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lopez and Nygel Lythgoe.

Also on Saturday, Prince William played in a charity polo match in Santa Barbara, where he scored four goals to lead his team to victory.

STORY: Details of Prince William, Kate Middleton's Trip to Los Angeles

Next up, the royal couple will visit with the group ServiceNation: Mission Serve, which works to help veterans find jobs.

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William Arthur Ward

Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. William Arthur WardFeeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William Arthur WardWe can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. William Arthur Ward

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William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain. William ShakespeareAction is eloquence. William ShakespeareAnd since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of. William ShakespeareAnd thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. William ShakespeareAssume a virtue, if you have it not. William ShakespeareBe great in act, as you have been in thought. William ShakespeareBlow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude. William Shakespeare Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William ShakespeareFor they are yet ear-kissing arguments. William Shakespeare Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. William ShakespeareGlory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty! William ShakespeareHe who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. William ShakespeareHis life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! William ShakespeareHow poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. William Shakespeare How use doth breed a habit in a man. William ShakespeareI am not bound to please thee with my answers. William ShakespeareI did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. William ShakespeareI dote on his very absence. William ShakespeareI feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. William ShakespeareI hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood. William ShakespeareI must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. William ShakespeareI pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve. William ShakespeareI pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. William ShakespeareI wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William ShakespeareI wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again. William ShakespeareIll deeds are doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare In a false quarrel there is no true valour. William ShakespeareIn peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. William Shakespeare In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare

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William Goldman

Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. William Goldman, "The Princess Bride" Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something. William Goldman, The Princess BrideThis is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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William Congreve

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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
William Congreve

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
William Congreve

Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
William Congreve

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William Congreve

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
William Congreve

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
William Congreve

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
William Congreve

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William Ralph Inge

Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. William Ralph IngeEvents in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. William Ralph Inge The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things. William Ralph IngeThere is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.' William Ralph IngeIt takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)

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William Shakespeare

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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain. William ShakespeareAction is eloquence. William ShakespeareAnd since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of. William ShakespeareAnd thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. William ShakespeareAssume a virtue, if you have it not. William ShakespeareBe great in act, as you have been in thought. William ShakespeareBlow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude. William Shakespeare Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William ShakespeareFor they are yet ear-kissing arguments. William Shakespeare Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. William ShakespeareGlory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty! William ShakespeareHe who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. William ShakespeareHis life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! William ShakespeareHow poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. William Shakespeare How use doth breed a habit in a man. William ShakespeareI am not bound to please thee with my answers. William ShakespeareI did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. William ShakespeareI dote on his very absence. William ShakespeareI feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. William ShakespeareI hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood. William ShakespeareI must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. William ShakespeareI pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve. William ShakespeareI pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. William ShakespeareI wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William ShakespeareI wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again. William ShakespeareIll deeds are doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare In a false quarrel there is no true valour. William ShakespeareIn peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. William Shakespeare In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare

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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain. William ShakespeareAction is eloquence. William ShakespeareAnd since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of. William ShakespeareAnd thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. William ShakespeareAssume a virtue, if you have it not. William ShakespeareBe great in act, as you have been in thought. William ShakespeareBlow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude. William Shakespeare Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William ShakespeareFor they are yet ear-kissing arguments. William Shakespeare Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem. William ShakespeareGlory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught. William Shakespeare God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty! William ShakespeareHe who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. William ShakespeareHis life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! William ShakespeareHow poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. William Shakespeare How use doth breed a habit in a man. William ShakespeareI am not bound to please thee with my answers. William ShakespeareI did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. William ShakespeareI dote on his very absence. William ShakespeareI feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. William ShakespeareI hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood. William ShakespeareI must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. William ShakespeareI pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve. William ShakespeareI pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. William ShakespeareI wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William ShakespeareI wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again. William ShakespeareIll deeds are doubled with an evil word. William Shakespeare In a false quarrel there is no true valour. William ShakespeareIn peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. William Shakespeare In time we hate that which we often fear. William Shakespeare

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