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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe11 quotes
One lives but once in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Who strives always to the utmost,
For him there is salvation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808The deed is all, the glory nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Man will err while yet he strives. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808Law is mighty, mightier necessity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808All 11 quotes →John Milton4 quotes
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do
What then thou would'st. — John Milton · 1671Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;
Not wedlock-treachery. — John Milton · 1671Apt words have power to suage
The tumours of a troubled mind. — John Milton · 1671Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possessed. — John Milton · 1671Friedrich Schiller3 quotes
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. — Friedrich Schiller · 1801What's not forbidden to do make bold. — Friedrich Schiller · 1798Many a crown shines spotless now
That yet was deeply sullied in the winning. — Friedrich Schiller · 1798John Dryden2 quotes
There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know! — John Dryden · 1680Dead men tell no tales. — John Dryden · 1680John Webster2 quotes
I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exits. — John Webster · 1614Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and death things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind. — John Webster · 1619Christopher Marlowe1 quote
Accurst be he that first invented war. — Christopher Marlowe · 1587George Chapman1 quote
Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea
Loves t' have his sails filled with a lusty wind,
Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,
And his rapt ship run on her side so low
That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. — George Chapman · 1608Pierre Corneille1 quote
A service beyond all recompense
Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense. — Pierre Corneille · 1674Thomas Otway1 quote
What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was 't betrayed the Capitol? -A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world? -A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes? -Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! — Thomas Otway · 1680