Civility Quote by George Herbert

As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place,…

— William Shakespeare

“By God," quod he, "for pleynly, at a word, Thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but his shape,…

— William Cowper

Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“This golden droid has been a friend, 'tis true,/ And yet I wish to still his prating tongue!/ An imp, he calleth me? I'll…

— Ian Doescher

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

— William Wordsworth

Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through…

— John Dryden

Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of…

— Charles Churchill

“there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed…

— Emily Bronte

And what if thou, sweet May, hast known Mishap by worm and blight; If expectations newly blown Have perished in thy sight; If loves…

— William Wordsworth

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An'…

— Robert Burns

No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd…

— John Keats