T Quotes
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“Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio’s death,
The noise was high. Ha! No more moving?
Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were ’t good?
I think she stirs again—No. What’s best to do?
If she come in, she’ll sure speak to my wife—
My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.
Oh, insupportable! Oh, heavy hour!
Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse
Of sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globe
Should yawn at alteration.”
Source: Othello
“Tis like the birthday of the world,
When earth was born in bloom;
The light is made of many dyes,
The air is all perfume:
There's crimson buds, and white and blue,
The very rainbow showers
Have turned to blossoms where they fell,
And sown the earth with flowers.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood
“Tis Lilith.
Who?
Adam's first wife is she.
Beware the lure within her lovely tresses,
The splendid sole adornment of her hair;
When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare,
Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.”
Source: Faust
“Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.”
“Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.”
Source: The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861
“Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.”
“Tis love in love that makes the sport.”
“Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Browning
“Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.”
“Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.”
“Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine
On vain refinements vainly to refine,
To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign,
To boast of apathy when out of pain,
And in each sentence, worthy of the schools,
Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules
Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault
That into practice they can ne'er be brought.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
“Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.”
Source: The history of Henry Esmond, esq
“Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,
But most where trees are sending
Their breezy boughs on high,
Or stooping low are lending
A shelter from the sky.
And there in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid;
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently round her head.”
“Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.”
“Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.”
“Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,
But more when envy breeds unkind division:
There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.”
Source: King Henry VI, part 1. King Henry VI, part 2. King Henry VI, part 3
“Tis my humor as much to regard the form as the substance, and the advocate as much as the cause, as Alcibiades ordered we should: and every day pass away my time in reading authors without any consideration of their learning; their manner is what I look after, not their subject. And just so do I hunt after the conversation of any eminent wit, not that he may teach me, but that I may know him, and that knowing him, if I think him worthy of imitation, I may imitate him.”
Source: The Complete Essays
“Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...”
“Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.”
Source: The Susanna Kearsley Collection
“Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.”
Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war
“Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.”
Source: Works, Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters and C
“Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.”
Source: Standup Shakespeare
“Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.”
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson
“Tis noble in you to tell me that you have other causes of unhappiness. Is it true?”
“Too true.”
Source: Great Expectations
“Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
They belch us.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.”
“Tis not as thou wert not noted for the occasional abrupt disappearance.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Tis not for golden eloquence I pray,
A godlike tongue to move a stony heart--
Methinks it were full well to be apart
In solitary uplands far away,
Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray,
Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face
Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.”
“Tis not for mortals always to be blest.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations
“Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.”
Source: The Comedies of Aristophanes: Preface. The clouds. The wasps. The discat turned gentleman
“Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.”
Source: The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels
“Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.”
Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth
“Tis not in mortals to command success; but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.”
Source: Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays
“Tis not love’s going hurts my days,
But that it went in little ways”
“Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles and sunshine in my face, When discontent sits heavy at my heart.”
Source: Cato. A Tragedy. London 1808
“Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.”
“Tis not of thee, nor solitary 'I'
No lone lament, nor boast to heaven’s door
But 'we', fair souls entwined 'neath fate’s vast sky.”
Source: The Ineffable Taste Of You
“Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)
“Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.”
Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq
“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.”
“Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride”
“Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.”
“Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.”
“Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.”
Source: Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected
“Tis not the greatest singer
Who tries the loftiest themes,
He is the true joy bringer,
Who tells his simplest dreams.
He is the greatest poet,
Who will renounce all art,
And take his heart and show it
To every other heart;
Who writes no learned riddle,
But sings his simplest rune,
Takes his heart strings for a fiddle,
And plays his easiest tune
~ Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
[From Back Country Poems, 1892]”
Source: Back Country Poems
“Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.”
“Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?”
“Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality,
Or modest anger of a satiric spirit,
That hurts or wounds the body of a state,
But the sinister application
Of the malicious, ignorant, and base
Interpreter; who will distort and strain
The general scope and purpose of an author
To his particular and private spleen.”