Thomas More Quotes
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.
Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.
and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our own notions