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Robert Burton
114 quotes
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses...grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What physic, what chirurgery, what wealth, favor, authority can relieve, bear out, assuage, or expel a troubled conscience? A quiet mind cureth all them, but all they cannot comfort a distressed soul: who can put to silence the voice of desperation?”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be not solitary, be not idle.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy," he said, "was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holbrook Jackson, The Anatomy of Bibliomania (1930)
“Naught so sweet as melancholy.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow foxes cut off theirs.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They are proud in humility; proud in that they are not proud.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Who cannot give good counsel? 'T is cheap, it costs them nothing.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The commonwealth of Venice in their armoury have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.”
Robert Burton (1577–1640) said by 1640 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source