Diffidence Quote by William Shakespeare Download Open image “A tardiness in nature, Which often leaves the history unspoke, That it intends to do.” — William Shakespeare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diffidence History Nature Tardiness
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot cards seemed… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Tarot is the journey of the soul, a spiritual compass that illuminates our path, sparking understanding and transformation within ourselves.” — Tarot Master Roger Copy Share Image
History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
“Nature will be reported. All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The Analysts and Traditionists state that the environment is created from the wind at the peak [of existence] which remains from the time of destruction, Or from five types of seeds carried from other worlds. The stream [of phenomena] is undispersed and coheres through [the effect] of concordant actions. Lasting form and time are deceptive impressions within naive minds; It… — Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye Copy Share
Natural history is a matter of observation; it is a harvest which you gather when and where you find it growing. Birds and squirrels… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If history has taught me anything about the nature of others, it has thought me that when natures can not be denied, they persist.” — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. Julius Caesar (2.1.248-251)” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
I went from resenting my mother-in-law to accepting her, finally to appreciating her. What appeared to be her diffidence when I was first married,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables… — Robert Frost Copy Share
Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No pains must be spared to wipe out all feeling of diffidence, embarrassment, or shame on the part of those receiving relief; [we] must… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the… — George Washington Copy Share Image