Davenant Quotes

#1. Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

William Davenant

#2. The power of faith overpowers fear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

William Davenant

#4. There is so much that people take for granted.

Vivienne Westwood

#5. Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
By eating, and it fears to starve, unless
It still may feed, and all it sees devour;
Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

William Davenant

#6. Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

William Davenant

#8. I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

Julia Roberts

#9. Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

William Davenant

#10. Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.

John Of Damascus

#11. For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught
To be contented with the least.

William Davenant

#12. All jealousy must be strangled in its birth ...

William Davenant

#13. Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends.

William Davenant

#14. Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

Aldous Huxley

#15. Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

William Davenant

#16. Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

William Davenant

#17. someone who wants to trust everyone so much that they don't see a lie when it's slapping them right in the face.

John Corey Whaley

#18. Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when
Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,
A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear
Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.

William Davenant

#19. How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

William Davenant

#20. Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.

William Davenant

#21. Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

Judy Parfitt

#22. To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heav'ns great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command
Time
nature's stock.

William Davenant

#23. Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.

William Davenant

#24. I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.

Patina Miller

#25. My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience.

Vali Nasr

#26. For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

James Russell Lowell

#27. Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

William Davenant

#28. I believe in God ... I gain strength from God. I believe in Jehovah, God, very much ... I believe in God and love God.

Michael Jackson

#29. How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

William Davenant

#30. Winter is sitting; autumn is walking; summer is running, but the Spring is flying!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. The assembled souls of all that men held wise.

William Davenant

#32. Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

William Davenant

#33. Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.

William Davenant

#34. Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd,
Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave;
For though we like it, as a forward child,
'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

William Davenant

#35. And dusk fell because it suited his skin.

Anne Enright

#36. Generous souls
Are still most subject to credulity.

William Davenant

#37. All slander must still be strangled in its birth, or time will soon conspire to make it strong enough to overcome the truth.

William Davenant

#38. We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

Heinz Guderian

#39. O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave,
The wise expect, the sorrowful invite,
And all the good embrace, who know the grave
A short dark passage to eternal light.

William Davenant

#40. Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

William Davenant

#41. What one cannot, another can.

William Davenant