"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as……" — Elizabeth I
"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
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Elizabeth I
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84 Quotes by Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I has 84 quotes on this site.
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Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
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I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke…
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When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our…
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There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.
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I have no desire to make windows into mens souls.
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Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.
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As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to…
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My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we…
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There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord…
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Men fight wars. Women win them.
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Kings were wont to honour philosophers, but if I had such I would honour them as angels that should have…
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I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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More Brass Quotes
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
— Thomas Beecham
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I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the…
— George Clooney
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
— William Shakespeare
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In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some…
— Mark Twain
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Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains…
— Ray Liotta
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I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded…
— Betty Smith
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At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them…
— John Cotton
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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
— Lord Chesterfield
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