Brass Quote by William Shakespeare Download Open image “Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.” — William Shakespeare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brass Character Courtesy Evil Manners Men Virtue Water Writing
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of… — Imagawa Sadayo Copy Share Image
“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation. — Horace Copy Share Image
“As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet them, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving (to the contrary), the low place which all… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Though they may not always be handsome men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into… — Henry Fielding 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
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands? — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
I smiled,"Deoch, my heart is made of stronger stuff than glass. When she strikes she'll find it strong as iron-bound brass, or gold and… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town.… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster:… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As many bands as you heard [in New Orleans], that's how many bands you heard playing right. I thought I was in Heaven playing… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor… — Horace Copy Share Image
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