Writ Quotes

78 quotes by 63 authors

Your fate is writ clear;you will be murdered. I cannot conceive how it comes about that you were not murdered long since! How odd!Charles himself… — Georgette Heyer
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in… — James Monroe
Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. — William Hamilton
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. — John Denham
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet. — Aphra Behn
The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees… — John Yoo
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation. — Thomas Ken
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor… — Edward Fitzgerald
Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end… — Karen Armstrong
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any… — Dorothy Parker
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though divinely penned, And… — Francis Quarles
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the… — William Shakespear
Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser,… — Thomas Goodwin
But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my… — William Shakespear
Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit — William Cowper
Moving finger writes and having writ moved on — Omar Sharif
Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ… — Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just at the stroke when my veins start and spread, Set on my soul an everlasting head. Then am I ready, like a palmer fit,… — Sir Walter Raleigh

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