Henry Wotton Quotes

• Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

  Henry Wotton

  Character, Night, Bed

  Walter Raleigh, Henry Wotton, J. Hannah (1929). “The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh”, p.93, Рипол Классик

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• Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

  Henry Wotton

  Truth, Telling The Truth, Puzzles

  "Fiske WordPower: The Exclusive System to Learn, Not Just Memorize, Essential Words". Book by Edward Fiske et al., 2006.

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• 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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• 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

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• 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

  'Elements of Architecture' (1624) pt. 1

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• Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

  Henry Wotton

  Thinking, Rome, Church

  In Izaak Walton 'Sir Henry Wotton', in Christopher Wordsworth 'Ecclesiastical Biography' (1810) vol. 5, p. 44; first published in Walton's first edition of 'Reliquiae Wottonianae' (1651)

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• Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

  Henry Wotton

  Love, Relationship, Guests

  Walter Raleigh, Henry Wotton, J. Hannah (1929). “The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh”, p.88, Рипол Классик

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• Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

  Henry Wotton

  Country, Lying, Men

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• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

  Henry Wotton

  Country, Honesty, Lying

  "Up Front With Robert Murphy" by C. L Sulzberger, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 1964.

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• Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

  Henry Wotton

  Hate, Hats, Three

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• 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

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• I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

  Henry Wotton

  Men, Stuff, Values

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• The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

  Henry Wotton

  Church, Scabs, Prove

  Sir Henry Wotton (1672). “Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems: with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed”, p.35

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• Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

  Henry Wotton

  Men, Punishment, Use

  Sir Henry Wotton (1672). “Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems: with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed”, p.201

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• 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 — What are you when the rose is blown?

  Henry Wotton

  Spring, Years, Purple

  Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14

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• By weaker accents, what's your praise
  When Philomel her voice doth raise?

  Henry Wotton

  Voice, Praise, Accents

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• 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

  "The Character of a Happy Life". Poem by Henry Wotton, 1614.

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