139 Quotes by Walter Raleigh

Corrupt seeds bring forth corrupt plants.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.

Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

If she undervalues me, What care I how fair she be?