Walter Raleigh Quotes (33 Quotes)


    The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

    War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.

    Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill.

    Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.



    Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hopes true gage And thus Ill take my pilgrimage.

    The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

    The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.

    Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth.

    Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

    I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me


    No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women

    Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

    Men well governed should seek after no other liberty, for there can be no greater liberty than a good government.

    Romance is a love affair in other than domestic surroundings.

    So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth. Executed by beheading.

    In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.

    If the heart be right, it matters not which way the head lies

    There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

    Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year And when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

    I wish I loved the Human Race I wish I loved its silly face I wish I liked the way it walks I wish I liked the way it talks And when I'm introduced to one I wish I thought What Jolly Fun

    The gain of lying is, not to be trusted by any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.

    Even Such is Time Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.

    In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.


    Passions are likened best to floods and streams The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

    'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you.

    Speaking much is a sign of vanity for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed.

    Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy


    Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity

    To His Son Three things there be that prosper up apace And flourish whilst they grow asunder far But on a day, they meet all in one place, And when they meet they one another mar And they be these the wood, the weed, the wag. The wood is that which makes the gallows tree The weed is that which strings the hangman's bag The wag, my pretty knave, betokeneth thee. Mark well, dear boy, whilst these assemble not, Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild But when they meet, it makes the timber rot, It frets the halter, and it chokes the child. Then bless thee, and beware, and let us pray We part not with thee at this meeting day.


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