Top 100 Quotes About Tis
#1. Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Thomas Hardy
#2. There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#3. If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!
Elizabeth Wordsworth
#4. Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what they listen?
John Keats
#5. In sooth I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me, you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn; ...
William Shakespeare
#6. For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
Bartholomew Roberts
#7. The music of the busy bee Is drowsy, and it comforts me; But, ah! 'tis quite another thing, When that same bee concludes to sting! Andrew Downing (nineteenth-century American horticulturalist)
Dave Goulson
#8. Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing.
Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening
Karen Hawkins
#9. A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still
But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.
Henry Van Dyke
#10. Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
Ben Jonson
#11. 'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Edward Moore
#12. And remember men will scorn it, 'tis original and true,
And the obloquy of newness may fall bitterly on you.
Sarah Williams
#13. One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.
Eugenie De Guerin
#14. Tis from high Life high Characters are drawn; A Saint in Crape is twice a Saint in Lawn: A Judge is just, a Chanc'llor juster still; A Gownman learn'd; a Bishop what you will; Wise if a minister; but if a King, More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything.
Alexander Pope
#15. Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly, Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky. Then let the good Thy mighty name revere, And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.
Walter Scott
#16. Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.
Martin Luther
#17. 'Tis I who should thank you for the gift of your flesh." Looming
J.R. Ward
#18. 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd.
William Shakespeare
#20. That he's mad, 'tis true,
'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis, 'tis true
- a foolish figure,
William Shakespeare
#21. Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.
Voltaire
#22. Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.
John Bowring
#23. I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand." "I
Thomas Hardy
#24. I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our means secure us, and our mere defects
prove our commodities.
William Shakespeare
#25. Tis not for golden eloquence I pray,
A godlike tongue to move a stony heart
Methinks it were full well to be apart
In solitary uplands far away,
Betwixt the blossoms of a rosy spray,
Dreaming upon the wonderful sweet face
Of Nature, in a wild and pathless place.
Frederick Tennyson
#26. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence.
George Gordon Byron
#27. They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake.
J.M. Barrie
#28. I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
Seamus Heaney
#29. Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with
your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your
mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.
Look you, these are the stops.
William Shakespeare
#30. Money! Ho, ho!
'T'as been my want so long, 'tis now my scoff.
I've e'en forgot what colour silver's of.
Thomas Middleton
#31. Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear;
'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear.
Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear,
But what thou art.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#32. Tis unnatural, Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last, A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. It's
William Shakespeare
#34. Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.
John Denham
#35. Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.
Charles Lamb
#37. Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#38. Good my lord, be cured
Of this diseased opinion, and betimes.
For 'tis most dangerous.
William Shakespeare
#39. She dreams of him that has forgot her love;
You dote on her that cares not for your love.
'Tis pity love should be so contrary;
And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!
William Shakespeare
#40. For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instills,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which over flows
To lift us with him as he goes.
George Meredith
#41. Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich
William Shakespeare
#44. Do not forever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,
Passing though nature to eternity.
William Shakespeare
#45. I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
William Congreve
#46. I am not mad: I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself: O, if I could, what grief should I forget! Preach some philosophy to make me mad, And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal;
William Shakespeare
#47. Tis I whom children love the best; / My wealth is all for them; / For them is set each glossy cup / Upon each sturdy stem.
Cicely Mary Barker
#48. Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb
#51. Shall this nectar Run useless, then, to waste? or ... these lips, That open like the morn, breathing perfumes, On such as dare approach them, be untouch'd? They must
nay, 'tis in vain to make resistance
Be often kissed and tasted.
Philip Massinger
#52. Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it ...
Sigrid Undset
#53. 'Tis an old tale, and often told; But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me!
Walter Scott
#55. Even better to take a walk in your enemy's shoes. 'Tis the best way to control their footsteps.
A.G. Howard
#56. When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.
David Hume
#57. There's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself Whether I in any just term
William Shakespeare
#58. Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Sarah Fielding
#59. That strain again! It had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet as it was before.
William Shakespeare
#60. Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.
Roger L'Estrange
#61. 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William Congreve
#62. But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.
John Constable
#63. Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange,
Although he fleeced the flags of every nation,
For into a prime minister but change
His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.
Lord Byron
#66. A secret in his mouth, is like a wild bird put into a cage; whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out.
Samuel Johnson
#67. I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.
Horace Walpole
#68. I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.
John Wilkes Booth
#69. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
#70. In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.
Michel De Montaigne
#71. Tis true I know what evil I shall do but passion overpowers the better council.
Epictetus
#72. Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
John Selden
#73. It's two A.M. "To sleep or to write that is the question?" Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of my piss poor punctuation or take arms against a sea of keys with so many new possibilities.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#74. Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
William Cowper
#75. He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend:
Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure
For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.
Henry Taylor
#76. The lynx raised his hind leg and licked his nether regions. 'Tis what I think of the doctor's foolish prediction.
Vonnie Davis
#77. Tis the land of Fancy, and is of that pleasant kind that, when you tire of it, - whisk! - you clap the leaves of this book together and 'tis gone, and you are ready for every-day life, with no harm done.
Howard Pyle
#78. Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
Lord Byron
#79. Ian shrugged like he didn't care, though his reddened face indicated differently.
- 'Tis always the same. Either they're no' interested because they think I'm a child, or they are interested because they think I'm a child, which is even worse.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#80. Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants' use to dwell, ... 'Tis to be slave in soul And to hold no strong control Over your own wills, but be All that others make of ye.
Noam Chomsky
#81. Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
Lope De Vega
#82. I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.
Jack Higgins
#84. Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
George Farquhar
#85. Remorse is cureless
the Disease
Not even God
can heal
For 'tis His institution
and
The Adequate of Hell
Emily Dickinson
#86. What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true ...
Erica Jong
#87. Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. What pity 'tis, one that can speak so well, Should in his actions be so ill!
Philip Massinger
#89. Souls soar high above reach,
Hands extend but never touch,
Words exchanged in dulcet tones,
Tis a fated moment to understand one's truth,
Time to let go.
Truth Devour
#90. Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.
Flora Thompson
#92. Tis the part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but either to take no notice of what the world does, or run with it for company
Desiderius Erasmus
#93. The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
Bill Vaughan
#94. What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.
Dorothy Osborne
#95. Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.
Hugh Walpole
#96. N sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
William Shakespeare
#97. C'est moi, c'est moi,'tis I,' I told him. It seemed appropriately melodramatic, though I didn't know if he'd catch the reference. I shouldn't have worried.
Unexpectedly, he laughed. Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.
Patricia Briggs
#99. 'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.
William Shakespeare
#100. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
Alexander Pope
