Top 35 Henry Wotton Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Henry Wotton

#1. Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs;

Oscar Wilde

#2. Most of the time, stuff doesn't just happen to us-we make it happen by what we do and the way we are.

Tony Jeary

#3. Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

Henry Wotton

#4. Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Henry Wotton

#5. Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Henry Wotton

#6. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Henry Wotton

#7. In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

Pope John Paul II

#8. You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own - What are you when the rose is blown?

Henry Wotton

#9. Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

Henry Wotton

#10. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.

Oscar Wilde

#11. To define is to limit.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Giving back with love is our duty.

Debasish Mridha

#13. It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

Neil Patrick Harris

#14. It's to your best interest to be patient with your REAL self as you nurture it back into existence." ~ Linda Deir

Linda Deir

#15. But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

Patrick Ness

#16. An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

Henry Wotton

#17. It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#18. You are living in a blessed time now, Reuben, and you will be until all those you love here are gone, until your generation is in the earth. Then immortality will begin for you.

Anne Rice

#19. An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.

Henry Wotton

#20. Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.

Lord Henry Wotton

#21. I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

Oscar Wilde

#22. I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

Jean M. Auel

#23. Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

Lord Henry Wotton

#24. Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

Henry Wotton

#25. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.

Henry Wotton

#26. We - not our company - are responsible for our attitudes. What happens each day at work doesn't get to determine my attitude, I do. Attitude is a decision. And it's a decision we have to make every day, sometimes every hour if that particular day is especially whack.

Jon Acuff

#27. One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

Zack Snyder

#28. How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

Henry Wotton

#29. The mind is in a sad state when Sleep, the all-involving, cannot confine her spectres within the dim region of her sway, but suffers them to break forth, affrighting this actual life with secrets that perchance belong to a deeper one.

Nathaniel Hawthorne