Quotes by : Thomas More

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good....

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with our....

What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability....

...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this....

As God loves me, when I consider this, then every modern society seems to me to be nothing but a conspiracy....

It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite rooted....

To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes....

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure,....