198 Quotes by Edmund Spenser

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.

All flesh doth frailty breed!

A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books-- I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.

How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife; And fretting grief the enemy of life; All these and many evils more, haunt ire.

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.