And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the language between 1500 and 1650, about half of them still...
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Bill Bryson
O! Learn to read what silent love hath writ:to hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.
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William Shakespeare
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...
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William Shakespeare
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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William Shakespeare
All's well that ends well.
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Ben Jonson
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose, Cynthia's shining orb was made...
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
