Quotations Page 'B'

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

- Shakespeare, Comedy, of Errors -

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What it is that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person concerned?

- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calender -

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Lady you are the cruellest alive.If you will lead those graces to the grave.And leave the world no copy.

- Shakespeare, Twelfth Night -

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Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

- Johnson, Letter 1770 -

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But hushed be every thought that springs.From out the bitterness of things.

- Wordsworth, Elegiac -

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I had most need of blessing and "Amen"Struck in my throat.

- Shakespeare, Macbeth -

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"God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim, the last of all:

- Dickens, A Christmas Carol -

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They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

- New Testament, Mathew -

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To live a life half dead a living death.

- Milton, Samson Agonistes -

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It was dream of perfect blissToo beatiful to last.

- T.K.Bayly, It was a Dream -

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A block head cannot come in, nor go away,nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

- Bruyere -

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Blood is thicker than water.

- John Ray, English Prov. -

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Feat at my heart, as at a cup. My life-blood seem'd to sip.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -

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It was worse than a crime; it was blunder.

- Fouche -

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It is disgraceful to stumble twice against the same stone.

- Greek Proverb -

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The rudeness is a sense to his good witWhich gives men stomach to digest his words with better appetite.

- Shakespeare, Julius Caeser -

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Better a blush on the face than blot on the heart.

- Carvante -

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A blush is the colour of virtue.

- Diogenes -

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A killing tongue, but a quite sword.

- Shakespeare -

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