List of Thomas More Quotes

And One Wild Shakespeare, Following Nature's Lights, Is Worth Whole Planets, Filled With Stagyrites.

. . . The State Of Things And The Dispositions Of Men Were Then Such, That A Man Could Not Well Tell Whom He Might Trust Or Whom He Might Fear.

The Servant May Not Look To Be In Better Case Than His Master.

No More Like Together Than Is Chalke To Coles.

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.

There Are Several Sorts Of Religions, Not Only In Different Parts Of The Island, But Even In Every Town; Some Worshipping The Sun, Others The Moon Or One Of The Planets.

For When They See The People Swarm Into The Streets, And Daily Wet To The Skin With Rain, And Yet Cannot Persuade Them To Go Out Of The Rain, They Do Keep Themselves Within Their Houses, Seeing They Cannot Remedy The Folly Of The People.

It Is Naturally Given To All Men To Esteem Their Own Inventions Best.

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.

Yea, Marry, Now It Is Somewhat, For Now It Is Rhyme; Before, It Was Neither Rhyme Nor Reason.

Oh! Blame Not The Bard.

Howbeit, This One Thing, Son, I Assure You On My Faith, That If The Parties Will At Hands Call For Justice, Then, All Were It My Father Stood On The One Side, And The Devil On The Other, His Cause Being Good, The Devil Should Have Right.