Quotes
Quotes - Burton
Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their rooms, which we call changelings.
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.
'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because thatâs the way the world is.
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because thatâs the way the world is.
