Top 100 Would'st Quotes

#1. And would'st thou evil for his good repay?

Homer

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#2. Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st tasteHis works. Admitted once to his embrace,Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before:Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heartMade pure shall relish with divine delightTill then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.

William Cowper

Would'st Quotes #204154
#3. If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

John Milton

Would'st Quotes #471545
#4. To know thyself
in others self-concern;
Would'st thou know others? read thyself
and learn!

Friedrich Schiller

Would'st Quotes #477237
#5. Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

John Milton

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#6. If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.

Charles Lamb

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#7. Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

H. P. Blavatsky

Would'st Quotes #1227447
#8. If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

H. P. Blavatsky

Would'st Quotes #33787
#9. Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.

John Aubrey

Would'st Quotes #825223
#10. They'd performed more modern plays sometimes in the first few years, but what was startling, what no one would have anticipated, was that audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare to their other theatrical offerings.

Emily St. John Mandel

Would'st Quotes #1007018
#11. I would blossom if I were a rose.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Would'st Quotes #828652
#12. I had this perfect situation where my studio was a three-minute walk away, and every day I would go to the studio. If I had an idea, I could work on it at the highest level possible.

St. Lucia

Would'st Quotes #859563
#13. I came from a Hindi medium school ... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

Lakshmi Mittal

Would'st Quotes #882018
#14. My voice wouldn't work right. I made a tiny nod instead, because - how's this for weird? - I didn't want him to let go of me. He'd pulled back a little, with just his lower half, and I was afraid the scorch in my cheeks would set fire to the rest of me, because I had an idea why.
Wow. Oh, wow.

Lili St. Crow

Would'st Quotes #884681
#15. When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!

Gerard Butler

Would'st Quotes #909989
#16. I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

Erma Bombeck

Would'st Quotes #913023
#17. Apparently, Clytius hadn't expected her to be quite so suicidal. He was slow raising his sword. By the time he slashed, Hazel had ducked between his legs and jabbed her Imperial gold blade into his gluteus maximus. Not very ladylike. The nuns at St. Agnes would never have approved. But it worked.

Rick Riordan

Would'st Quotes #968769
#18. St. Paul is not yet the man he would be, which he must be. But he, and all they who with him believe that the perfection of Christ is the sole worthy effort of a man's life, are in the region, though not yet at the centre, of perfection.

George MacDonald

Would'st Quotes #986596
#19. I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.

Douglas Adams

Would'st Quotes #1006269
#20. Apollo had changed Hyacinth into a flower to protect him. I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her. That's how we were different from the gods.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Would'st Quotes #677794
#21. You'd be so lean, that blast of January
Would blow you through and through. Now, my fair'st friend,
I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might
Become your time of day.

William Shakespeare

Would'st Quotes #823139
#22. We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.

Eric Ripert

Would'st Quotes #804695
#23. She whistles. "Wow, Frost. If I wasn't with Crystal, I would totally do you." An umcomfortable laugh leaves my lips. "If I liked woman?" Alzona shrugs. "What were Sin's words? I can change your mind. I'm just that gorgeous," she says.

Kelly St. Clare

Would'st Quotes #759359
#24. He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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#25. The corridor was silent. It was necessary to walk very slowly, her hand on the wall. A man was curled on his side near the elevators, shivering. She wanted to speak to him, but speaking would take too much strength, so she looked at him instead - I see you, I see you - and hoped this was enough.

Emily St. John Mandel

Would'st Quotes #714906
#26. I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend summers on the farm in Maryland. Then I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, to St. Paul's School. From there, I moved to London.

Alexis Denisof

Would'st Quotes #714442
#27. In Britain I love spending time at the St. James's, the Jumeirah Carlton Tower on Cadogan Place, and the Mayfair Hotel. We've got some spectacular hotels tucked away in London, but because I live there, I don't get to spend as much time in them as I probably would like to.

Colin Salmon

Would'st Quotes #709930
#28. I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

Rabih Alameddine

Would'st Quotes #695651
#29. Ah! How contrary are the teachings of Jesus to the feelings of nature! Without the help of His grace it would be impossible not only to put them into practice, but to even understand them.

Therese De Lisieux

Would'st Quotes #693620
#30. Apollo had said he knew what this kind of love was capable of. And I finally understood why Paris had risked his country and his blood for Helen. Selfish, yes, but I understood. I would burn the world if that meant Alex would be safe.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Would'st Quotes #686691
#31. I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.

Kate Atkinson

Would'st Quotes #1335004
#32. I'd already shot a zombie. Maybe this smartmouth blue-eyed apple-pie boy would be next.

Lili St. Crow

Would'st Quotes #1145744
#33. The holy and learned Jesuit, Father Suarez, was so deeply aware of the value of the Angelic Salutation that he said that he would gladly give all his learning for the price of one Hail Mary that had been said properly.

St. Louis De Montfort

Would'st Quotes #1325006
#34. I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because as the French people know that I was born in St. Louis, thinking I would be very proud to announce it to the public, they gave me the news first. I was then starring in the 'Folies Bergere.'

Josephine Baker

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#35. St. Andrews is the Home of Golf and the greatest course in the world. Any time you can win at St. Andrews would be special. It's every golfer's dream to win out here.

Peter Uihlein

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#36. I was there that first night her called you. I've seen how he looked at you in pictures. Any bloke with a working prick would be insane not to like you.

Stephanie Perkins

Would'st Quotes #1272246
#37. Jenna." Brock stroked the underside of her chin very gently, lifting her face up toward his. "Would it be all right if I kissed you?

Tina St. John

Would'st Quotes #1248457
#38. I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

Julia Quinn

Would'st Quotes #1230679
#39. Do you seriously envision St. Paul or Calvin or Luther opening bottles of Welch's Grape Juice in the sacristy before the service? Luther at least would turn over in his grave.

Robert Farrar Capon

Would'st Quotes #1206393
#40. Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.

Count Of St. Germain

Would'st Quotes #1198779
#41. Everyone in life faces obstacles. That's what made me who I am. I don't regret to have been bullied because probably if I would not have faced those obstacles I would not have been the man that I am. It make my stronger in a way and it helped me to forge the person that I am right now.

Georges St-Pierre

Would'st Quotes #1180522
#42. Without St. George, that balance would tip. Without the Order, there would be nothing to stop Talon and the Elder Wyrm from achieving what they wanted from the start: complete and utter dominion.

Julie Kagawa

Would'st Quotes #1166424
#43. For the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.'" "Who said that?" "The man who invented Christianity - St. Paul.

Aldous Huxley

Would'st Quotes #1148388
#44. Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

Lara St. John

Would'st Quotes #1021797
#45. Fifty percent of the women in this country are not having orgasms. If that were true of the male population, it would be declared a national emergency.

Margo St. James

Would'st Quotes #1140210
#46. St Augustine says: 'The true servant of God does not desire to be told or to be given what they would like to hear or see, for their prime and highest wish is to hear what is most pleasing to God.'3

Meister Eckhart

Would'st Quotes #1097940
#47. He had wanted to vanish, then, to close his eyes and reel back time, back to before he had ever met Caleb. He would have turned down Rhodes's invitation; he would have kept living his little life; he would never have known the difference.

Hanya Yanagihara

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#48. Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Rebecca West

Would'st Quotes #1093646
#49. I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

St. Lucia

Would'st Quotes #1063860
#50. It wasn't that I didn't understand Jeremy getting a new band while I was missing/dead/etc. I was sure I would have done the same thing in his position. Well, I would have started one, not joined one, because I don't really like team sports unless I've invented both the team and the sport.

Maggie Stiefvater

Would'st Quotes #1056560
#51. Diane St. John had once said he looked as if he would speak in poetry, should he ever deign to speak at all.

Madeline Hunter

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#52. Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

St. Jerome

Would'st Quotes #1053370
#53. Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Would'st Quotes #1042372
#54. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Clement Clarke Moore

Would'st Quotes #1028133
#55. You're going to merge your mind with the mind of eternity that goes on forever; that is not easy. It's very intense. I mean sitting on Mount St. Helens when it went off would have been small talk.

Frederick Lenz

Would'st Quotes #112680
#56. St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied.

Francis Of Assisi

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#57. It wasn't exactly dangerous to be out during the day ... but the Council, every one of them, up to and including August, would have kittens and penguins and little baby narwhals, too, probably, if they knew what I was up to.

Lili St. Crow

Would'st Quotes #271230
#58. The sea lions felt it and their barking took on a tone and a cadence that would have gladdened the heart of St. Francis. Little girls

John Steinbeck

Would'st Quotes #251001
#59. He shakes his head. His dark messy hair has a few curls in it today.It's quite breathtaking,really.If there were an Olympics competition in hair, St. Clair would totally win,hands down. Ten-point-oh.Gold medal.

Stephanie Perkins

Would'st Quotes #248629
#60. There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve," Neeve said. "Either you're his true love ... or you killed him.

Maggie Stiefvater

Would'st Quotes #248223
#61. It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

Ben Jonson

Would'st Quotes #234166
#62. Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal his jewel-filled station wagon, which they abandoned 2 blocks later because none of them could drive a stick shift. Where would I be without such people?

Donald E. Westlake

Would'st Quotes #227459
#63. Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

St. Jerome

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#64. Did you feel me up when you were tying me down?"
"Um, no. Did you want me to?"
"Well, it would have been nice.

Lili St. Crow

Would'st Quotes #183212
#65. The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.

Friedrich St. Florian

Would'st Quotes #161616
#66. Each would treasure going to hell if it would keep the other safe!

Sidney St. James

Would'st Quotes #144559
#67. Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note
In me a beauty that was never mine,
How first you knew me in a book I wrote,
How first you loved me for a written line ...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Would'st Quotes #282128
#68. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#69. He who would travel happily must travel light". ~Antoine de St. Exupery

Bob Wells

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#70. Someone once called Lincoln two-faced. "If I am two-faced, would I wear the face that I have now?" Lincoln asked.

Judith St. George

Would'st Quotes #77579
#71. There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.

David St. John

Would'st Quotes #72242
#72. I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Friedrich St. Florian

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#73. It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.

Evan Peters

Would'st Quotes #35220
#74. She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.

Emily St. John Mandel

Would'st Quotes #23536
#75. O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?

Benjamin Franklin

Would'st Quotes #11779
#76. THE MAGICIAN
They asked St. Germain's manservant if his master was truly a thousand years old, as it was rumored he had claimed.

'How would I know?" the man replied. "I have only been in the master's employ for three hundred years.

Neil Gaiman

Would'st Quotes #9965
#77. My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.

Robert Glasper

Would'st Quotes #7814
#78. Even if the whole of the man-made world could, through relentless effort and sacrifice, be modelled to rival St Mark's Square, even if we could spend the rest of our lives in the Villa Rotonda or the Glass House, we would still often be in a bad mood. 7.

Alain De Botton

Would'st Quotes #509501
#79. You're assuming they would listen to me," I said.
Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam."
He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.

Maggie Stiefvater

Would'st Quotes #660310
#80. Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way, and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Herman Melville

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#81. I cannot be the only reader who has wondered why God, having given him [St. Paul] so many gifts, withheld from him (what would seem so necessary for the first Christian theologian) that of lucidity and orderly exposition.

C.S. Lewis

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#82. If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.

James St. James

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#83. When the St. Louis Rams players walked onto the field on game day two weeks ago with their hands up, they were correct: That indication of surrender would have resulted in a completely different outcome for Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Both men, however, opted to resist the police.

Anonymous

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#84. Some part of me must've thought that would fix everything. Things, don't just get fixed, though. Things get broken, and somtimes they stay that way. You just have to glue them together and hope it holds.

Lili St. Crow

Would'st Quotes #614314
#85. If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.

Michael Ashcroft

Would'st Quotes #596487
#86. If wishes could be fishes, even beggars would eat.

Lili St. Crow

Would'st Quotes #579536
#87. I can't choose one favorite place because all destinations have something different to offer. My favorite city to explore is Paris; I love the culture of Morocco and the waterfalls in St. Lucia. I just can't choose one. I would like to go back to New Zealand to see more of what it has to offer.

Martha Hunt

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#88. Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Martin Luther

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#89. Tobacco ... is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

Bertrand Russell

Would'st Quotes #544511
#90. I was in seventh grade at St. Matthew's. The teachers would tell me, 'God loves you,' and then whack a ruler across my hand. 'Well,' I'd say, 'if God loves me, can you call God? Can you ask Him if it's all right that I didn't do my homework? If it's not, then let Him hit me.'

Freddie Prinze

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#91. Cam has been an outsider for his entire life. Even when he lived with the Rom. I think he's always secretly hoped he could someday find a place where he would belong. But until he met you, it didn't occur to him that it might not be a place he was looking for, but a person.

Lisa Kleypas

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#92. If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

Oliver St. John

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#93. We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.

St. Catherine Of Siena

Would'st Quotes #488269
#94. I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.

Edward St. Aubyn

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#95. There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.

St. Lucia

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#96. St. Vincent was far too clever to rely on physical violence when a few well-chosen words would skewer someone with a minimum of fuss.

Lisa Kleypas

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#97. I would write a thousand foolish things that one might be to the point, if only it might make us praise God more.

Teresa Of Avila

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#98. Publishers always clamour for the books that no one has ever written, and turn a cold shoulder on them as soon as they're written. If St Paul were living now they would pester him to write an Epistle to the Esquimaux, but no London publisher would dream of reading his Epistle to the Ephesians.

Saki

Would'st Quotes #402629
#99. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage?

William Shakespeare

Would'st Quotes #313787
#100. The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.

Eric Dickerson

Would'st Quotes #296353

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