John Donne Best Quotes

#1. I was clever enough to know that John Donne was offering something that was awfully enjoyable. I just wasn't clever enough to actually enjoy it.

Wallace Shawn

#2. No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

Timothy Noah

#3. I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.

John Donne

#4. And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

Ted Hughes

#5. Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. Therefore, ask not to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne

Meg Cabot

#6. Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it I do believe, and take it.

John Donne

#7. No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#8. Comparisons are odious

Cervantes, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, ect...

Talon Rihai

#9. Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard. No man is an island, but how John Donne would writhe to hear how often, and for what reasons, the thought is so tiresomely repeated.

William H. Whyte

#10. I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.

Samantha Shannon

#11. Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail. ~John Donne

Kristen Pierce

#12. All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND

Kenneth Williams

#13. What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.

Cleanth Brooks