"Please your eye and plague your heart." — William Cobbett
"Please your eye and plague your heart."
—
William Cobbett
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
34 Quotes by William Cobbett
William Cobbett has 34 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when…
-
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
-
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought…
-
The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who…
-
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his…
-
To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot…
-
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is…
-
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time…
-
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
-
Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.
-
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and…
-
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
See all 34 quotes by William Cobbett »
More Eye Quotes
This quote is filed under Eye Quotes,
one of 11,530 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
-
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
— Aristotle
-
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and…
— Neil Armstrong
-
Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
— Victoria Abril
-
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
-
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
-
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
-
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
— Margaret Atwood
-
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
— Saint Augustine
-
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
-
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He…
— Teresa of Avila
See all 11,530 Eye Quotes »