John Denham Quotes (19 Quotes)

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

History also suggests that terrorism is rarely defeated until serious efforts are made to engage with the political and social problems that give rise to it in the first place,

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too To live and die is all we have to do.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

What won't work is an approach which just says 'We have decided what we are going to do and we are just going to spend a lot more time explaining it to you'.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme Though deep, yet clear though gentle, yet not dull Strong without rage without o'erflowing, full.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too,

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

I think most MPs now believe the police have made a case for an extension but not necessarily as far as 90 days. It is certainly possible that the government could lose it.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair

no objection in principle to removing people from the country or preventing them coming here if they are not conducive to the public good.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

But whither am I strayed I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.