John Donne Quotes - Page 8

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• To an incompetent judge I must not lie, but I may be silent; to a competent I must answer.

  John Donne

  Lying, Judging, Answers

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.364

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• As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.

  John Donne

  Men, Soul, Virtuous

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'A Valediction: forbidding mourning'

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• I find no abhorring in my appetite.

  John Donne

  Appetite

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.540

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• Whoever loves, if he do not propose
  The right true end of love, he's one that goes
  To sea for nothing but to make him sick.

  John Donne

  Love, Sea, Sick

  'Elegies' 'Love's Progress' (1599-1601)

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• Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none.

  John Donne

  Heart, Mad, May

  "John Donne: The Major Works".

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• How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.

  John Donne

  Dating, Church, Noble

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• My love though silly is more brave.

  John Donne

  Silly, Brave

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

  John Donne

  Greatness, Men, World

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• We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no peace of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnet pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urne becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

  John Donne

  Love, Peace, Ashes

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

  John Donne

  Past, Punishment, Faults

  John Donne, Henry Alford (1839). “The Works”, p.561

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• Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

  John Donne

  Children, Yesterday, Sorrow

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.210, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

  John Donne

  Doors, Noise, Whining

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

  John Donne

  Littles, Twins, Truth And Falsehood

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.411

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• Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

  John Donne

  Men, Affliction, Treasure

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.575

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• But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

  John Donne

  Sleep, Thinking

  John Donne (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

  John Donne

  Angel, Men, Understanding

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Letters. Poems”, p.455

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• True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Writing

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

  John Donne

  Life, Women, Swear

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.16, Delphi Classics

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• There is no health; physicians say that we, at best, enjoy but neutrality.

  John Donne

  Health, Physicians, Neutrality

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.81

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• The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

  John Donne

  Philosophy, Men, Differences

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.141, Paulist Press

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• I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

  John Donne

  Love, Country, Wonder

  Songs and Sonnets "The Good-Morrow" (published 1633)

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• A mathematical point is the most indivisble and unique thing which art can present.

  John Donne

  Art, Unique, Mathematics

  "The science of poetry, the poetry of science" by Ruth Padel, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

  John Donne

  Mother, Wall, Jail

  John Donne, John Carey (2000). “John Donne: The Major Works”, p.280, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.

  John Donne

  Love, Lying, Bed

  John Donne, Izaak Walton (1855). “The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne: With a Memoir”, p.213

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• The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.

  John Donne

  Love, Heaven, Should

  John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.118, Delphi Classics

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