Beautiful Expressions
Here are few of those immortal lines
and beautiful expressions.
- Adventure is the champagne of life. (G. K. Chesterton)
- Adversity's sweet milk is philosophy. (Romeo and Juliet 3: 3: 55)
- All do not all things well. (Thomas Champion)
- All experience is an arch to build upon. (Henry Brooks Adams)
- All is at once sunk in their whirl-pool death. (Donne)
- All things to end are made. (Thomas Nashe)
- The almighty dollar is the only object of worship. (Anon)
- Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Julius Caesar 3:2:97)
- And death shall be no more. death, thou shalt die. (Donne)
- And justify the ways of God of men. (Paradise Lost 1 – 22)
- And nature must obey necessity. (Julius Caesar 4:3:225)
- And purer than the purest gold. (Ben Jonson : The Touchstone of Truth)
- Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. (Milton Samson 1.184)
- Art is man added to nature. (Bacon)
- Art lies in concealing art. (Latin Proverb)
- As good luck would have it. (Merry Wives 3: 5: 86)
- Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life. (Hendry Emerson Fosdick)
- Awake, arise or be forever fallen. (Paradise Lost 1 - 330)
- A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. (Mark Twain)
- Bad's the best of us. (Beaumont and Fletcher. The Bloody Brother 4-2)
- The ballot is stronger than the bullet. (Abraham Lincoln)
- Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. (Dryden : Absalom 168)
- A barren superfluity of words. (Sir Samuel Garth)
- Beauty’s sweet but beauty’s frail. (Thomas Carew)
- The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merry man. (Swift : Polite Conversation)
- The best is yet to be. (Browning)
- Better than the best. (Paradise Lost 1 - 262)
- Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (Paradise Lost 1-262)
- Brief is life but love is long. (Tennyson)
- The busy candidates for power and fame. (Dr. Johnson)
- Care - charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to death. (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- The child is father of the man. (Wordsworth)
- To choose time is to save time. (Bacon Essays)
- Cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity. (Chesterfield)
- Danger comes in silence and in secret. (Isaac Pocock)
- Dark with excessive bright. (Paradise Lost : 3 – 380)
- A day is miniature eternity. (Emerson: Journals)
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee. (Donne)
- Death hath so many doors to let out life. (Beaumont and Fletcher)
- The custom of the country. (2-2)
- Deeds, not words shall speak me. (Beanmont and Fletcher : The Lover's Progress 3-6)
- Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? (Hamlet 3-2-393)
- Earth laughs in flowers. (Emerson)
- Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. (Pope)
- Even God can not change the past. (Agathon)
- Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. (Goethe)
- Excessive scruple is only hidden pride. (Goethe)
- Faint heart wins not lady fair. (William James Linton)
- The fairest things have the fleetest end. (F. Thomson)
- Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. (William Ellery Channing)
- Fame is food that dead men eat. (A. Dopson)
- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. (Winston Churchill)
- Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. (Tennyson)
- The fault's not in the object, but their eyes. (Ben Jonson in Authorem)
- And feel that I am happier than I Know. (Paradise Lost 8-282)
- For every why, he had a wherefore. (Samuel Butler)
- For her own person, It beggar'd all description. (Antony and Cleopatra : 2-2-199)
- For love is lust and life is a dream of death. (James Elroy Flecker)
- For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. (Tennyson. The Brook. St. 6)
- For who would bear the whips and scorns of time. (Hamlet 3:1:70)
- Friends are born, not made. (Hendry Brooks Adams)
- From softness only softness comes. (Marcus Curtius)
- Give it an understanding, but no tongue. (Hamlet 1: 2: 249)
- God became man, that men might become God. (St. Augustine)
- A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured upon purpose to a life beyond life. (Milton : Aeropagitica)
- A good face is a letter of recommendation. (Joseph Addison)
- Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring. (Paradise Lost 4-750)
- Happiness is the shadow of thing past. (Paradise Lost 4-299)
- He for God only. She for God in him. (Paradise Lost 4-299)
- He was not of an age, but for all time. (Ben Jonson)
- He wears the rose of youth upon him. (Antony & Cleopatra 3 : 11 : 20)
- He, who will not when he may, may not when he will. (John of Salisbury)
- Heaven lies about us in our infancy. (Wordsworth)
- Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. (Keats)
- Heaven is our heritage, Earth but a player's stage. (Thomas Nashe)
- A heaven on earth. (Paradise Lost 4-208)
- The heart is not a clock, it will not wind again. (Sacheverell Sitwell)
- Hector is dead. There is no more to say. (Troilus & Cressida 5-10-22)
- Hills whose heads touch heaven. (Othello 1 : 3: 141)
- Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. (Paradise Lost 5-165)
- His time is forever, everywhere his place. (Abraham Cowley)
- An honest man's the noble work of God.
- Honest labour bears a lovely face. (Thomas Dekker)
- How noiseless falls the foot of time. (W. R. Spencer)
- Hypocrisy in the homage that vice offers to virtue. (La Rochefaocauld)
- I am not in the roll of common men. (Henry IV PTI 3 : 1 : 43)
- I am that I am. (Exodus 3: 14)
- I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. (William Ernest Henley)
- I can resist everything except temptation. (Oscar Wilde)
- I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence. (Disraeli)
- I have immortal longings in me. (Antony & Cleopatra 5 : 2 : 282)
- I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness. (Henry VIII 3 : 2: 224)
- I love not Man the less, but Nature more. (Byron : Childe Harold)
- I shall temper so justice with mercy. (Paradise Lost 9 – 77)
- I want what I want when I want it. (Henry Blossom)
- I was in the middle of the stream and must sink or swim. (Hazlitt)
- I would be married to a single life. (Richard Crashaw)
- Ice and iron can be welded. (R. L. Stevenson)
- If summer come not, how can winter go? (Richard Crashaw)
- If the worst comes to the worst.
- It is better to be Socrates in prison than Caliban on the throne. (Wil Durant)
- Tis hard to part when friends are dear. (Anna Letitia Barbauld)
- The inaudible and noiseless foot of time. (All's well 5: 3: 41)
- Language is the dress of thought. (Dr. Johnson)
- Large was his health, but larger was his heart. (Dryden : Absalom 1.826)
- The law allows it and the court awards it. (Merchant of Venice 4 : 1 : 303)
- Law is the bottomless pit. (John Arbuthnot)
- Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law. (Goldsmith)
- Let bus do or die. (Robert Burns)
- Liberty! Equality! Fraternity!
- Liquid lapse of murmuring streams. (Paradise Lost : 8 – 263)
- A Little learning is dangerous thing. (Pope)
- Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. (Venus and Adonis 1-799)
- Love has found out a way to Live by Dying. (John Dryden)
- Love is love’s reward. (John Dryden)
- Love’s the noblest frailty of the mankind. (John Dryden)
- Love is the perfect sum of all delight. (Tobias Hume)
- Love makes all things equal. (Shelley)
- Love will find out the way.
- Make temples of my hears to God we must. (Lord Brooke)
- Man delights not me, no not women neither. (Hamlet 2: 2: 328)
- A man is good in ruin. (Emerson)
- Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman. (Nietzsche)
- Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution. (G K. Chesterton)
- Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.
- Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Johnson)
- May you live all the days of your life? (Swift)
- A maxim consists of a minimum of sound and a maximum of sense. (Mark Twain)
- Memory, the warder of the brain. (Macheth 1 : 7: 65)
- Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all. (Tristan Bernard)
- A mind content both crown and kingdom is. (Robert Greene)
- The moan of doves in immemorial elms.
- And murmuring of innumerable bees. (Tennyson)
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. (Somerset Maugham)
- Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. (Aphra Sehn)
- A moon, the eye of light, the star of wars. (Aeschylus)
- More honor's in the breath than the observance. (Hamlet 1 : 4 : 14)
- Much might be said on both sides. (Joseph Addison)
- A multitude of people, yet a solitude. (Dickens)
- O! My offence is rank. It sells to heaven. (Hamlet 3 : 3 : 36)
- Nature is the art of God Eternal. (Dante)
- Never complain and never explain. (Disraeli)
- None but the brave deserves the fair. (J. Dryden)
- Now join your hands and with your hands your hearts. (Henry IV pt 3. 4 : 6: 39)
- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps the end of the beginning. (Winston Churchill)
- One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. (Troilus & Cressida 3 : 3 : 171)
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (F D. Roosevelt)
- An ornament to her profession. (John Bunyan)
- Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. (Wordsworth)
- The path of duty was the way to glory. (Tennyson)
- The pit of hell is as deep as despair. (Abbot William)
- A place for everything and everything in its place.
- Plain living and high thinking. (Wordsworth)
- Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain. (Cowper)
- Poetry is criticism of life. (M. Arnold)
- A politician …. one that would circumvent God. (Hamlet 5: 1 : 84)
- Politicians have no politics. (G.K.Chesterton)
- Prayer is conversation with God.
- Pride will spit in pride's face. (Thomas Fuller)
- Progress is not mere movement, but it is improvement. (L. S. N. Sarma)
- Promise made is a debt unpaid. (Robert William Service)
- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Publius Syrus)
- The quite mind is richer than crown. (Robert Greeny)
- The remedy is worse than the disease. (Bacon)
- The river glideth at his own sweet will. (Wordsworth)
- In a rudderless boat upon the vastness of the Infinite. (Sri Aurobindo)
- Sadder than sorrow : sweeter than delight. (C. Patmore)
- See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds. (Paradise Lost 3-337)
- She was perfect past all parallel. (Bayron)
- The shirt of Nessus is upon me. (Antony & Cleopatra 4 : 10 : 56)
- The shortest answer is doing. (Lord Herbert)
- The silence that is in the starry sky, the sleep that is among the lonely hills. (Wordsworth)
- Sing away sorrow. Cast away care. (Cervantes)
- A soft embalmer of the still midnight. (John Keats : To Sleep)
- Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. (Smollet, Tobies)
- Some people are more nice than wise. (Cowper)
- Sound etymology has nothing to do with sound. (Max Muller)
- Steep’d me in poverty to the very lips. (Othello 4 : 2 : 49)
- (Lucy Gray) The sweetest thing that ever grew beside a human door. (Wordsworth)
- The sweets of love are mixed with tears. (Robert Herrick)
- The sum of earthly bliss. (Paradise Lost 8-522)
- Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. (Burke)
- Suspense in news is a torture. (Milton Samson 1 – 1569)
- There is a divinity that shapes our end. (Shakespeare)
- There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. (Hamlet 5-2-232)
- There is danger in delay. (Giles Fletcher)
- There is nothing either good or bad. But thinking makes it so. (Hamlet 2 – 2 -259)
- There is nothing great or small. (E. B. Browning)
- This only I know that I know not the things which I cannot know. (St. Ambrose)
- This was the most unkindest cut of all. (Julius Caesar 3: 2: 188)
- Those thoughts that wander through eternity. (Paradise Lost 2-147)
- Thou wander'st in the labyrinth of life. (Dryden)
- Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend. (Pope)
- Thou life is short, let us not make it so. (Ben Jonson)
- Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. (Gray)
- Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. (Hamlet 3 : 1 : 83)
- Time alone doth change and last. (John Ford)
- Time fleets, youth fades, life is an empty dream.
- Time will not be ours for ever. (Ben Jonson)
- Time, the subtle thief of youth. (Milton : Sonnets : 7)
- The timely dew of sleep. (Paradise Lost)
- Times change and we change with them.
- To be or not to be : that is the question. (Hamlet 3 : 1 : 56)
- To take arms against a sea of trouble. (Hamlet 3 : 1 : 56)
- In trouble to be troubl’d.
- Is to have your trouble doubl’ d. (Daniel Defoe)
- Too greatness a greatness greatness does confound. (Barten Hobyday)
- The Unknown are better than ill known. (Abraham Cowley)
- Usually we praise only to be praised. (La Rochefoucauld)
- The vagabond, when rich, is called a tourist. (Paul Richard)
- Variety is the soul of pleasure. (Aphra Benn)
- Victory smiles on those who dare. (William James Linton)
- Voyaging thro' strange seas of thought, Alone. (Wordsworth)
- Warbling murmurs of brook. (Lord Herbert)
- We only part to meet again. (John Gay)
- We refuse praise from a desire to be praised twice. (La Rochefoucauld)
- We that live to please must please to live. (Johnson)
- What a piece of work is man! (Hamlet)
- What is this life, if full of care. We have no time to stand and stare. (W. H. Davies)
- When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. (William Schwenck Gilbert)
- When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. (Hamlet 3 : 1 : 67)
- Whoever lives true life, will love true love. (E. B. Browning)
- A wilderness of Sweets. (Paradise Lost 5 : 294)
- Wisdom married to immortal verse. (Wordsworth)
- Woe came with war and want with woe. (W. Scott)
- The world is changed with the grandeur of God. (G. M. Hopkins)
- The world is too much with us. (Wordsworth)
- The world's a prison, no man can get out. (Berten)
- The word Alms has no singular, as if to teach us that a solitary act of charity scarcely deserves the name.
- Words are but empty thanks. (Colley Cibber)
- You shall be more beloving than belov'd. (Antony & Cleopatra 1 : 2 : 24)
- You shall be yet for fairer than you are. (Antony & Cleopatra 1 : 2 : 18)
