Henry Wotton Quotes

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

How happy is he born and taught; that serves not another's will, whose armor is his honest thought and truth, his utmost skill.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

Well building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when the sun shall rise? This was printed with music as early as 1624, in East's Sixth Set of Books, and is found in many manuscripts.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.