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Decay Quotes by William Shakespeare
- When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.
- How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and…
- Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But…
- No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am…
- When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And…
- Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
- Look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his…
More Decay Quotes
- Progress, this great heresy of decay. — Charles Baudelaire
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
- The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb… — Annie Besant
- Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. — Ambrose Bierce
- All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. — Theodor Adorno
- Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. — Robert Browning
- A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the… — Richard Burton
- The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which… — John C. Calhoun
- A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it… — Maurice Chevalier
- The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men… — Frederick William Robertson