Methinks Quotes
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More Methinks Quotes
We were halves throughout, and to that degree that Methinks by outliving him I defraud him of his part.
Michel de Montaigne— Book I, ch. 27. Of Friendship
Methinks there be not impossibilities enough in religion for an active faith.
— 1634-5 Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 6.
Dear, why should you command me to my rest, When now the night doth summon all to sleep? Methinks this time becometh lovers best; Night was ordained together friends to keep.
Michael Drayton— 1594 Ideas Mirrour, sonnet 37.
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy! A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.
james russell lowell— 1846 'An Interview with Miles Standish', stanza11.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous birds, with those also that love thetwilight, flutterabout, amazed at what she means.
john milton— 1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
Bright flower! whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy or sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.
william wordsworth— To the Daisy (third poem), st. 1 (1803).
Methinks, I see the wanton houres flee, And as they passe, turne back and laugh at me.
villiers, george, 2nd duke of buckingham— As quoted in The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.
arthur hugh clough— The Higher Courage, st. 7 (1840).
Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
David Hume— Part 4 Of the sceptical and other systems of philosophy, Sect. 7 Conclusion of this book
Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retail'd to all posterity, Even to the general all-ending day.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act III, scene 1, line 76.
But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks, Brothers and sisters lawfully may kiss.
— Act IV, scene 4.
Bright flowers, whose home is everywhere Bold in maternal nature's care And all the long year through the heir Of joy and sorrow, Methinks that there abides in thee Some concord with humanity, Given to no other flower I see The forest through.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, To the Daisy.
Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act IV, scene 4, line 405.
Love is your master, for he masters you; And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.
— Act I, scene 1, line 39.
I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.
— Gonzalo, scene i
All letters, Methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse,not studiedasanoration, normadeup of hard words like a charm.
— 1653 Letter to William Temple.
Whenas in silks my Julia goes,Then, then (Methinks) how sweetly flowsThat liquefaction of her clothes.Next, when I cast mine eyes and seeThat brave vibration each way free;Oh how that glittering taketh me!
Robert Herrick— "Upon Julia's Clothes".
As I am never better than when I am mad; then Methinks I am a brave fellow; then I do wonders: but reason abuseth me, and there's the torment, there's the hell.
thomas kyd— Act III, sc. xiia.
Madam, Methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honour'd Margaret.
john milton— To the Lady Margaret Ley.
"Ay," quoth my uncle Gloucester, "Small herbs have grace , great weeds do grow apace:" And since, Methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act II, scene 4, line 12
I see, Sir, you are liberal in offers: You taught me first to beg; and now, Methinks, You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act IV, scene 1, line 437.
A Man who has been brought up among Books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is what we call a Pedant. But, Methinks, we should enlarge the Title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his Profession and particular way of Life.
— Joseph Addison, Spectator 1711. [1]
I must to the barber's; * * * for Methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act IV, scene 1, line 23.
The lady doth protest too much, Methinks.
— Gertrude, scene ii
O God! Methinks, it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live.
william shakespeare— King Henry, scene v
This night, Methinks, is but the daylight sick.
— Portia, scene i
