Henry Wotton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.
-- Henry Wotton

#Character #Night #Bed
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
-- Henry Wotton

#Thinking #Church
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
-- Henry Wotton

#Men #Punishment #Use
Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
-- Henry Wotton

#Book #Grace #Praying
Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.
-- Henry Wotton

#Love #Relationship #Guests
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
-- Henry Wotton

#Church #Scabs #Prove
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

#Country #Lying #Home
I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.
-- Henry Wotton

#Men #Stuff #Values
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 â€” What are you when the rose is blown?
-- Henry Wotton

#Spring #Years #Purple
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
-- Henry Wotton

#Art #Three #Delight
Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
-- Henry Wotton

#Hate #Three #Delight
Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.
-- Henry Wotton

#Country #Lying #Men
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

#Book #Eye #Night
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
-- Henry Wotton

#Country #Honesty #Lying
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
-- Henry Wotton

#Truth #Telling The Truth #Puzzles
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

#Truth #Honesty #Skills

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