Elizabethan Quotes: top 15 famous quotes about Elizabethan

Elizabethan Quotes & Sayings

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What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his! — Ford Madox Ford

I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday. — Tamara Ecclestone

The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader. — Penelope Lively

You know, I'm worried about Szymborska. I wish she would stop smoking. — Wislawa Szymborska

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.. — James M. Barrie

Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth. — George Fetherling

Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco

Language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset ... — John Geddes

Lord, what fools these mortals be! — William Shakespeare

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. — Bill Vaughan

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted. — Jonah Lehrer

In Elizabethan England you will only find small codpieces. Large ones, stuffed with wool and looking like an erect male member, are out of date — Ian Mortimer

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly. — Christopher Buckley

We don't go to Shakespeare to find out about life in Elizabethan England; we go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves now. — Jeanette Winterson