Welcome to the Quotable Success Collections!

Quotable Success, like BeMoreCreative.com, encourages thinking, working, and living more creatively. Creativity is "the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (W. Plommer). To support this work, we earn a small affiliate commission. Please browse creatively!


William Wordsworth: Stern Daughter of...

William Wordsworth: Stern Daughter of...

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!
O Duty! if that name thou love
Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check...

More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: Our birth is...

William Wordsworth: Our birth is...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its...

More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: Me this unchartered...

William Wordsworth: Me this unchartered...

Me this unchartered freedom tires;
I feel the weight of chance-desires:
My hopes no more must change their...

More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: In the faith...

William Wordsworth: In the faith...

In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.


More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: Some sipping punch,...

William Wordsworth: Some sipping punch,...

Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,
But, as you by their faces see,
All silent and all...

More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: Milton! thou shouldst...

William Wordsworth: Milton! thou shouldst...

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee; she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar,...

More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: Thy soul was...

William Wordsworth: Thy soul was...

Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart.

Source: Sonnets, 'Milton! thou...

More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: A man of...

William Wordsworth: A man of...

A man of hope and forward-looking mind
Even to the last!


Source: The Excursion,...

More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: The grim shape<br>Towered...

William Wordsworth: The grim shape
Towered...

The grim shape
Towered up between me and the stars, and still,
For so it seemed, with purpose of its own
And...

More about this quote...

William Wordsworth: Small service is...

William Wordsworth: Small service is...

Small service is true service, while it lasts.

Source: To a Child, Written in her...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Present mirth hath...

William Shakespeare: Present mirth hath...

Present mirth hath present laughter
What's to come is still unsure.


Source:...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: When valour preys...

William Shakespeare: When valour preys...

When valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.


Source:...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Bid them wash...

William Shakespeare: Bid them wash...

Bid them wash their faces,
And keep their teeth clean.


Source: Coriolanus, II....

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Thou hast done...

William Shakespeare: Thou hast done...

Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.

Source: Coriolanus, V. v....

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Or in the...

William Shakespeare: Or in the...

Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!


More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Orpheus with his...

William Shakespeare: Orpheus with his...

Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Life is as...

William Shakespeare: Life is as...

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.


More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: That smooth-fac'd gentleman,...

William Shakespeare: That smooth-fac'd gentleman,...

That smooth-fac'd gentleman, tickling Commodity,
Commodity, the bias of the world.


More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: For my own...

William Shakespeare: For my own...

For my own part, it was Greek to me.

Source: Julius Caesar, I. i. (288).
--...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: It adds a...

William Shakespeare: It adds a...

It adds a precious seeing to the eye;
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;
A lover's ear will hear the...

More about this quote...

Page 1,697 of 2,002


(C)2026 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA