Du Bartas Quotes & Sayings

I had been waiting, all my life, for someone undeceived to love me. — Rosamund Hodge

I can't believe Matt made you lead. What the hell was that about? I promised him I wouldn't kill anybody today.' ~ William Pierce — Destiny Booze

What is well done is done soon enough. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

I take the world to be but as a stage,Where net-maskt men do play their personage. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

There is no Theam more plentifull to scan,
Then is the glorious goodly frame of Man. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce

Night's black Mantle covers all alike. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

Apoplexie and lethargie,As forlorn hope, assault the enemy. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. — Paul Merton

The will for deed I doe accept. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. — Lord Chesterfield

For where's the State beneath the Firmament,
That doth excell the Bees for Government? — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth. — Herman Melville

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. — Raymond Queneau

A good turn at need,At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by. — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas