T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Tis not the winds, nor the waves, but your ability to harness them that will differentiate you.”
“Tis not thy love I fear to lose,
That will in spite of absence hold”
“Tis not to see the world
As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more.”
Source: Poems
“Tis not too late to seek a newer world.”
“Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.”
Source: The Art of Preserving Health
“Tis not what you crave that feeds your soul...
Tis my sunshine right after the rain
When my ravishing rays unfold.”
Source: Pretty Poems to Ponder
“Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.”
“Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.”
“Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'”
“Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit
And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd:
'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit:
And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d.
He that bewails and not forsakes them too;
Confesses rather what he means to do.”
“Tis nothing holy about being a bigot.”
Source: Corinthians
“Tis nothing when you are used to it.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift ...: with copious notes and additions, and a memoir of the author
“Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world. Now could I drink hot blood
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.”
Source: Hamlet
“Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.”
“Tis often seen
Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
A native slip to us from foreign lands.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare
“Tis often so, for beauty is a flow'r
That tempts the hand to pluck it.”
Source: The Prince of Parthia: A Tragedy
“Tis often the rarity that makes something so precious, wouldn't you say? If I were to have such extravagance daily then I might begin to think the jewels and the praise are ordinary rather than treasure them as I do.”
Source: An Uncertain Choice
“Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows
When, after death, man's honor is his guard.
So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie,
Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive.”
“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall."
- Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1”
Source: Measure for Measure
“Tis only in the future you can prove your true worth.”
“Tis only right he say that every man should own his own piece o' land at some time or other. 'Tis the ambition of every man to do that same said thing, an' he say it ain't only poor, simple people like you an' me, but 'tis the way the big folks think too.”
Source: In the Castle of My Skin
“Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.”
“Tis pleasant to have a large heap to take from.”
“Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.”
“Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,
To peep at such a world; to see the stir
Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.”
“Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.”
“Tis possible the Faerie Queen grew so linked with Gloriana in the minds of England’s folk that Gloriana’s passing could take the Mebd with it. And if the Mebd dies without loosing her bonds, all those Fae who are knotted in her hair die with her.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.”
Source: Selected poems
“Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.”
Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham
“Tis reason's part
To govern and to guard the heart,
To lull the wayward soul to rest,
When hopes and fears distract the breast;
Reason may calm this doubtful strife,
And steer thy bark through various life.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Nathaniel Cotton: Collated with the Best Editions
“Tis rushing now adown the spout,
And gushing out below,
Half frantic in its joyousness,
And wild in eager flow.
The earth is dried and parched with heat,
And it hath long'd to be
Released from out the selfish cloud,
To cool the thirsty tree.”
“Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”
Source: The Tragedy of Macbeth
“Tis said if you will but cast a desire under the crescent moon as stars cross its path, your wish will always come true.”
Source: Legend of the Crescent Moon
“Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.”
Source: DON JUAN
“Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.”
“Tis said, fantastic ocean doth enfold The likeness of whate'er on land is seen.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
“Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.”
Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne
“Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.”
“Tis sorry I am, niece. But I'm tired o' being looked down on as a lowlander and MacNaughton has promised MacFarlane to me do I see this through. Ye're marrying him and that's that."
Claray closed her mouth and gave a resigned nod, but couldn't resist saying, "Let us hope, then, that ye live a long time to enjoy it, uncle. For I fear yer decision will surely see ye in hell for eternity afterward."
Fear crossed his face at her words. It was closely followed by anger, and his hand clasped on her arm in a bruising grip. Dragging her out into the hall, he snapped, "Ye'll want to be watchin' that tongue o' yers with the MacNaughton, girl. Else ye'll be in hell ere me."
Claray raised her chin, staring straight ahead as he urged her up the hall toward the stairs. "Not I. Me conscience is clear. I may die first, but 'tis heaven where I'll land. Unlike you.”
Source: Highland Wolf
“Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks
“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!”
Source: DON JUAN
“Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.”
Source: DON JUAN
“Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.”
Source: The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Eyery man out of his humor. Cynthia's revels. The poetaster
“Tis the defect of age to rail at the pleasures of youth.”
Source: The perjur'd husband. The beau's duel. The gamester. The basset-table. Love at a venture. The stolen heiress
“Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.”
Source: Turkish Embassy Letters
“Tis the eternal law,
That first in beauty should be first in might.”
“Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.”
“Tis the Fate of All Gotham-Quarrels, when Fools go together by the Ears, to have Knaves run away with the Stakes.”
Source: Fables, of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections
“Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.”
Source: Cry Wolf