Tis Quotes - page 14

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume. (Elijah Fenton)
Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break. View quote
Elizabeth George Speare
I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. View quote
Lynn Kurland
Tis an ill wind that blows no minds. View quote
Malaclypse the Younger
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. View quote
Nicholas Culpeper
C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried. Unexpectedly, he laughed. "Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere. View quote
Patricia Briggs
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. View quote
Sarah Fielding
Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. 'Tis obvious that fighting is your skill. View quote
Maya Banks
I love you,” he said fiercely. " 'Tis not true that I kept a part of my heart locked away from you. You own all of it, lass. You've always owned it. I didn't give it to you. You took it from the very start. View quote
Maya Banks
Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"! View quote
Maya Banks
Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines. (Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet)
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. View quote
Phaedrus
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force. View quote
Algernon Sydney
Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made? View quote
Algernon Sydney
Tis impious pleasure to delight in harm. And beauty should be kind, as well as charm. View quote
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Tis plain to me As A B C, My dear friend, Mr. Neff!" "Oh, yes! but then," Says Mr. N, "You know I'm D E F! View quote
Charles Follen Adams
Why then should I seek further store, And still make love anew? When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true. View quote
Charles Sedley
Tis hard to feign merriment when the heart is sad. View quote
Tibullus
Tis in the power of Poetry to insinuate into the inmost Recesses of the Mind, to touch any Spring that moves the Heart, to agitate the Soul with any sort of Affection, and transform it into any Shape or Posture it thinks fit. View quote
Richard Blackmore
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought. (Richard Blackmore)
No more of courts, of triumphs, or of arms, No more of Valour's force, or Beauty's charms! The themes of vulgar lays with just disdain I leave unsung, the flocks, the amorous swain, The pleasures of the land, and terrors of the main. How abject, how inglorious 'tis to lie Grovelling in dust and darkness, when on high Empires immense, and rolling worlds of light, To range their heavenly scenes the muse invite! View quote
Richard Blackmore
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. View quote
John Adams
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. View quote
Thomas Fuller
When doctors differ who decides amid the milliard-headed throng? Who save the madman dares to cry: "'Tis I am right, you all are wrong"? "You all are right, you all are wrong," we hear the careless Soofi say, "For each believes his glimm'ering lamp to be the gorgeous light of day." View quote
Richard Francis Burton