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Quotes by Sir Thomas More

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
– Sir Thomas More
Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet, when absent souls in fancy meet.
– Sir Thomas More
Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known thee then,
Our souls had not been slow to meet!
But oh! this weary heart hath run
So many a time the rounds of pain,
Not even for thee, thou lovely one!
Would I endure such pangs again.
– Sir Thomas More
Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should be an eye,
To wander o'er thy beauties here.
– Sir Thomas More
This hath not offended the king.
– Sir Thomas More
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
– Sir Thomas More
A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
– Sir Thomas More
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
– Sir Thomas More
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
– Sir Thomas More
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
– Sir Thomas More
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
– Sir Thomas More
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
– Sir Thomas More
A friendship like love is warm a love like friendship is steady.
– Sir Thomas More
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
– Sir Thomas More