Nycilla dyes her locks, 'tis said, but 'tis foul aspersion; She buys them black, they therefore need no subsequent immersion
Lucillius
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Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity '...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Persian's heaven is easily made: 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade
GEORGE MOORE But yet she listen'd--'tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Ferryman ho! In the night so black
Hark to the clank of iron;
'Tis heroes of the Yser,
...
LUCIEN BOYER He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff,
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off.
EDWARD YOUNG In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
UNKNOWN 'Tis Ireland gives England her soldiers, her generals too.
GEORGE MEREDITH 'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite Makes eating a delight
JOHN SUCKLING 'Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration
Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains
The...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY No, truly, 'tis more than manners will;
And I have heard it said, unbidden guests
Are often we...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but
to knock at your ear, and beseech ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sundaies observe: think when the bells do chime,
'Tis angel's musick; therefore come not late.
GEORGE HERBERT Tis but a scratch''A scratch?! Your arm's off!''No, it isn't.
MONTY PYTHON 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil
DANIEL DEFOE 'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess
JOHN SELDEN Tis not the storms and heavy tides, that push us to and fro, "tis the course we steer her by that de...
STEPHEN ECKFIELD 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis well to borrow from the good and the great;
'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!
J.G. SAXE 'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.
DANIEL DEFOE 'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis gold
Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes
Diana's rangers false themselves,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round
LEWIS CARROLL Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
A. E. HOUSMAN When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Besides 'tis known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;
That Latin was no more di...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) 'Tis enough--
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart be sure is not of ice,
And o...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.
LEWIS CARROLL Wear a Sardonyx or for thee
No conjugal felicity.
The August-born without this stone
'Ti...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR 'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB A life of honour and of worth
Has no eternity on earth,--
'Tis but a name.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
ALCAEUS 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old
ALCAEUS I have no way and therefore want no eyes
I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen
our me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
ALCAEUS Who never doubted, never half believed.
Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY 'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
ALEXANDER POPE Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB 'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
JOHN MILTON The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 'Tis said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not
I've tried, alas! its power to ...
FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS 'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY 'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
JOHN GAY What 'twas weak to do 'Tis weaker to lament, once being done
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
BALTASAR GRACIAN What bird so sings, yet does so wail?
O, 'tis the ravish'd nightingale--
Jug, jug, jug, jug--t...
JOHN LYLY (LYLIE OR LYLLIE) I will not force ye, Eve, but ken this… I want ye like no other. ‘Tis an aching need and grows w...
MARY MORGAN Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
JOHN DRYDEN Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.
LORD GEORGE LYTTLETON Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.
LORD LYTTELTON Oh the brave Fisher's life,
It is the best of any,
'Tis full of pleasure, void of strife,
...
IZAAK WALTON 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care
Is to seem everything but what they are.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
GEORGE HERBERT Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We never valued this poor seat of England,
And therefore, living hence, did give ourself
To ba...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON 'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
THOMAS MOORE 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
THOMAS MORE All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis...
JEREMY COLLIER A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
JOHN DRYDEN 'Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
GEORGE HERBERT What is Friendship when complete? 'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From ...
ANNE FINCH What is Friendship when complete?'Tis to share all joy and grief; 'Tis to lend all due relief From t...
ANNE FINCH What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach,
'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;
And while it satisfie...
EDWARD YOUNG In the School of Coquettes
Madam Rose is a scholar,--
O, they fish with all nets
In the ...
HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON 'Tis money that begets money.
ENGLISH PROVERB 'Tis neither here nor there.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis good-will makes intelligence.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We frolic while 'tis May.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more;
A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.
'...
CALLIMACHUS We were prepared to buy her clothes and make sure she had all her supplies for school, but her guard...
JOYCE JOHNSON And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, t...
CHARLES DICKENS They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had...
BIANCA WALKER Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The ...
BRYAN WALLER PROCTOR 'Tis Fate that flings the dice,
And as she flings
Of kings makes peasants,
And of peasan...
JOHN DRYDEN And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR 'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON There was no real need for her to tell them that yet again, but that was all right with her. She was...
DAVID WEBER I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.
UNKNOWN 'Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
SENECA 'Tis not the food, but the content,
That makes the table's merriment.
ROBERT HERRICK I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 'Tis silence all,
And pleasing expectation.
JAMES THOMSON (1) Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
BALTASAR GRACIAN 'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Tis hatched and shall be so
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs s...
JOAQUIN MILLER 'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,
...
JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER)