Ye tradeful Merchants, that, with weary toil, Do seek most precious things to make your gain,...
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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Walked forth to ease my pain Along the shore of silver streaming Thames,...
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better -- the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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That through thy prowess and victorious arms, Thy country may be freed from foreign harms;...
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A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
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Shepheards delights he dooth them all forsweare, Hys pleasaunt pipe, whych made us meriment,...
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
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A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
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We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
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My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
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We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best.
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
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