Quotes of: Oft Keyword

Sonderbarerweise sprechen wir oft davon, aber es ist gerade [grenzenloses Empfinden], was wir lebenslang vermeiden.

The Man Without Qualities

Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.

The Two Noble Kinsmen

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

Silvertongue

It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible.

D.E. Navarro

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

Bryan Procter

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

At Faith's End

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

Samson Agonistes

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Measure for Measure

Music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

Measure for Measure

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

John Webster

Beware the knowledge thou seek, for knowledge though oft light, can sow the seeds of night and reap from the darkness that ensues" - 1654

Esmerelda Jane Forstine

The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.

John Keats

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Alexander Pope

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.

The Silmarillion

Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.

Measure for Measure

And oft the blessed time foretells When all men shall be free; And musical, as silver bells, Their falling chains shall be.

Poems on Slavery.

I oft go to a loft aloft in the sky. I go alone, because I enjoy the company of a lofty intellect.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.

The White Devil