W Quotes
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“Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
“Who doth his owne businesse, foules not his hands.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Who doth molest my contemplation?”
“Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.”
Source: The Light of Asia: Or the Great Renunciation Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism
“Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.”
Source: The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one
“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
And Usna's children died.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame”
“Who dresses you in the morning? Don't have that dilemma, whatever I passed out in the night before is what I wear to work.”
“Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk.”
Source: Kala
“Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.”
“Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green
At the true harvest can but glean.”
“Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after.
[Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]”
“Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.”
“Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball.”
“Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
“Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.”
“Who else can put cocoa in avocados, call it cookies and not make you gag? Who else can make wheat-germ muffins taste like actual food instead of cardboard?"
That made India laugh. "That's me, skilled at making food that doesn't make you gag and doesn't taste like cardboard.”
Source: Incense and Sensibility
“Who else can walk around in a suit like that and then disappear without a trace?”
“That’s easy,” Granuaile replied. “Keyser Söze.” She blew on the tips of her fingers. “Poof. He’s gone.”
Source: Tricked
“Who else could you have been but exactly who you are? I said. Did you, in the womb, construct yourself? All your life you believed yourself to be making choices, but what looked like choices were so severely delimited in advance by the mind, body, and disposition thrust upon you that the whole game amounted to a sort of lavish jailing.”
Source: Vigil
“Who else is going?" I asked. He shrugged. "Just you and me." My mood promptly shot up past 'cheerful' and went straight to 'estatic.' Me and Dimitri. Alone. In a car. This might very well be worth a surprise test. "How far is it?" Silently, I begged for it to be a really long drive. Like, one that would take a week. And would involve us staying overnight in luxury hotels. Maybe we'd get stranded in a snowbank, and only body heat would keep us alive. "Five hours" "Oh." A bit less than I'd hoped for. Still, five hours was better than nothing. It didn't rule out the snowbank possibility, either.”
“Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?”
“Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
They are in tune and step
with constellations of universal law.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg
“Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“Who ends up with their first real boyfriend? Yeah, no one.
- Courtney”
Source: Two-way Street
“Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.”
“Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.”
“Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?”
“Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which then to heaven being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution.”
“Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”
“Who ever he is, I agree with your mother," said Dad as he entered the kitchen. "Stay away from him. Stay away from them all until you're of marrying age. Once you reach a nice, mature fifty-four, gentlemen callers will be welcomed here.”
Source: Unspoken
“Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?”
“Who ever heard of a king without ears? Why, his crown would fall straight down to his neck!”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Who ever heard of a Martian not invading? Who!”
Source: The Concrete Mixer
“Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad.”
“Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world”
“Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.”
Source: A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty : Containing Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William, the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter, the Headstrong--the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been Or Ever Will be Published
“Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.”
“Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree.”
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”
“who ever play with play will cry with play”
“Who ever said that elephants were stronger than mules?”
“Who ever said that one was born just once?”
Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994
“Who ever said the world was fair?”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“Who ever said we were owed happiness?”
“Who ever said we were owed happiness?' Magnus said softly... 'What about what we owe to others?”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?”
Source: Essays