Thee Quotes

• Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

  Lord Byron

  Beach, Ocean, Dark

  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage canto 4, st. 179 (1818)

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• If on creation's morn the king of heaven
  To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given,
  O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee
  Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be;
  The spotless emblem of unsullied truth,
  The smile of beauty and the glow of youth,
  The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers,
  The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers.

  Henry George Bohn

  Kings, Flower, Eye

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• To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

  Hannah More

  Paint, Knows

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.379

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• Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Friendship, Art, Company

  "Don Quixote".

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• What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Art, Identity, Said

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Desire Love, Headstone, Gravestone

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• I love thee with the passion put to use
  In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
  I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
  With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
  Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
  I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Grief, Passion

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.

  Bayard Taylor

  I Love You, Old Love, Wedding Vow

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.134

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• ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

  John Donne

  Death, Grief, Bereavement

  John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”

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• Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Poetry, Too Short

  Sonnet 18

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• Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

  John Donne

  Kill Me, Dies

  'Holy Sonnets' (1609) no. 6 (in J. Carey's edition, OUP, 1990)

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• The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
  By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
  Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
  Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness,
  For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
  And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
  Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
  And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Brother, Children, Selfish

  "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65

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• Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

  Thomas Hood

  Love, Valentines Day, Art

  Thomas Hood (1857). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.225

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

  Ben Jonson

  Leadership, Men, May

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.53, Manchester University Press

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• Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Zero, Tennis

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• I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Passion, Men, Use

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.198, Everyman's Library

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• What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Dream, Wine

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

  Charles Kingsley

  Work, Christian Inspirational, Tools

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated)”, p.4065, Delphi Classics

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• Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Teaching, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

  John Milton

  Book, Men, Self

  "Complete Poems and Major Prose".

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• Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

  William Penn

  Confidence, Betrayal, Betrayed

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn: In Five Volumes. ...”, p.136

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• If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

  Elizabeth I

  Heart, Climbing, Hiking

  Lines after Sir Walter Ralegh, written on a window-pane: Thomas Fuller 'Worthies of England' vol. 1, p. 419.

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