Quotes by Walter Raleigh

“All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of thei...”

“PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;”

“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.”

“A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.”

“False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.”

“He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for whoso laboureth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necess...”

“Gods justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment.”

“Hatreds are the cinders of affection.”

“It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.”

“I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.”

“PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb;”

“God’s justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment.”

“It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.”

“I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.”

“Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.”

“No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest.”

“If all the world and love were young,And truth in every shepherd's tongue,These pretty pleasures might me moveTo live with thee and be thy Love.But fading flowers in every field,To winter floods th...”

“Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shi...”

“So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing —Stab at thee he that will,No stab the soul can kill.”

“[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.”