Twas Quotes

58 quotes by 47 authors

And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I… — Robert Southey
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let… — Henry Burton
This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I… — Herman Melville
'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest… — Aphra Behn
Twas the night before Thanksgiving. — Craig Ferguson
I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily in his Practize,… — John Aubrey
Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake… — Elizabeth I
'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot… — Alexander Brome
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his… — Oliver Goldsmith
Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie… — John Donne
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,… — John Aubrey
Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle… — John Selden
I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey. — Jerry Garcia
What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know. — Statius
Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment. — William Shakespeare
A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and grayâ€” And yet it somehow seemed… — John Kendrick Bangs
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. — Alexander Pope
That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter? — William Shakespeare

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