T Quotes
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“Tis a miserable thing to turn a soul into something it is not. Perhaps it is one of life’s greatest misfortunes.”
Source: A Long Lost Fantasy
“Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.”
Source: Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition
“Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under dominion of sin, than to confirm holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.”
“Tis a morning pure and sweet, And a dewy splendour falls On the little flower that clings To the turrets and the walls; 'Tis a morning pure and sweet, And the light and shadow fleet; She is walking in the meadow, And the woodland echo rings; In a moment we shall meet; She is singing in the meadow, And the rivulet at her feet Ripples on in light and shadow To the ballad that she sings.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)
“Tis a night for the fall of kingdoms, Robert.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.”
Source: Poems: Together with Brother Jacob and The Lifted Veil
“Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.”
“Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.”
Source: The twin-rivals: A comedy. : As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane: by her Majesty's servants
“Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a really sad day when ye have t' pinch yerself twice." Old woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night”
“Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet.”
“Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.”
“Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.”
Source: The Maid of the Mill. A Comic Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By the Author of Love in a Village. A New Edition
“Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
“Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.”
Source: The Highlander Series 3-Book Bundle: In Bed with a Highlander, Seduction of a Highland Lass, Never Love a Highlander
“Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.”
Source: Sophia's Secret
“Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.”
Source: Autobiography and Other Writings
“Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.”
“Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,
All just supply, and all relation;
Prince, subject, father, son, are things forgot,
For every man alone thinks he hath got
To be a phoenix, and that then can be
None of that kind, of which he is, but he.”
“Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.”
“Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman I knew, who would never say 'the weather grew cold,' but that 'winter begins to salute us.' I have no patience for such coxcombs.”
“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
“Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.”
Source: Discordia: Hail the Goddess of Chaos and Confusion
“Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.”
“Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves.”
Source: Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal
“Tis as it should be. Quiet when ye speak, not when yer away.”
Source: X Captain Ruik's Adventure
“Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive.”
Source: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
“Tis aye a solemn thing to me
To look upon a babe that sleeps--
Wearing in its spirit-deeps
The unrevealed mystery
Of its Adam's taint and woe,
Which, when they revealed lie,
Will not let it slumber so.”
Source: The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1838-December 1840, letters 602-783
“Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
With eloquence that's bought.”
“Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions
“Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”
“Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.”
“Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?”
Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition
“Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.”
“Tis best to build no castles in the air.”
Source: The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: 1787
“Tis best to weight the enemy more mighty than he seems.”
Or she, as was this particular case.”
Source: The Scot Beds His Wife
“Tis better never to be named than to be ill spoken of.”
“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”
“Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.”
Source: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
“Tis better to hit an air ball, than to force a note that don't wanna come out.”
“Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.”
“Tis better using France than trusting France;
Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
And with their helps only defend ourselves;
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...
“Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”
Source: King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series
“Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations
“Tis but a scratch!" "A scratch? Your arm's off!" "No it isn't." "Then what's that?" "Oh come on, pansy!”
“Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.”
“Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.”
“Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.”
“Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by H. Stebbing. To which is Prefixed Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton