TIS Quotes

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil. (Daniel Defoe)
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. View quote
Thomas Campbell
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. View quote
John Dryden
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. View quote
Thomas Moore
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. View quote
A. E. Housman
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. View quote
William Congreve
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. View quote
William Congreve
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. View quote
William Congreve
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. (Michel de Montaigne)
I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. View quote
Charles Stuart Calverley
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. View quote
Lord Byron
Of all actions of a man's life his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'tis most meddled with by other people. View quote
John Selden
Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable. View quote
Voltaire
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. View quote
Isaac Newton
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. View quote
William Wycherley
Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part. View quote
Thomas Paine
Tis God gives skill, But not without mens hands He could not make Antonio Stradivaris violins Without Antonio. View quote
George Eliot
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. View quote
Alexander Pope
If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies,'Tis a proof that he had rather; Have a turnip than his father. (Samuel Johnson)
It must be so - Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. View quote
Joseph Addison
Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do! View quote
Robert Browning
[...] where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. View quote
Thomas Gray