COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Topic | Authors by Date | | |||
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme,--to be sublimely great, or to be nothing. - [Ambition] An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. - [Oaths] Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. - [Affliction] Lying's a certain mark of cowardice. - [Lying] Pity is akin to love. - [Pity] The fragrant infancy of opening flowers flowed to my senses in that melting kiss. - [Kisses] The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. - [Death : Graves] There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause. - [Courage] When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face. - [Guilt] Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. - [Passion] Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. - Oroonoko (act II, sc. 2, l. 64) [Pity : Proverbs] Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count, ne'er made a man. - Sir Anthony Love (act II, sc. 1) [Man] Ambition is our idol, on whose wings Great minds are carry'd only to extreme; To be sublimely great, or to be nothing. - The Loyal Brother (act I, sc. 1) [Ambition] 'Tis something to be willing to commend; But my best praise is, that I am your friend. - To Mr. Congreve on the Old Bachelor (last lines) [Friends]
|
|
