Emily Rodda (1948) Australian fiction writer, for children as Rodda (pseudonym), mystery for adults as Rowe (real name)
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“Well aunt (quoth Ales) all is well that endes well.
Ye Ales, of a good begynnyng comth a good end.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Well aunt, said Ales, all is well that ends well.
Yes Ales, of a good beginning comes a good end.
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Letter to Lucy Donnely, April 22, 1906
1900s
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”
Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer
Source: Buddha's Little Instruction Book
“I trust to luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
3 February 1944
(1942 - 1944)
“It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
“He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.”
Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger
“Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”
George Eliot book Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch (1871)
Context: Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young lives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know what befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension; latent powers may find their long-waited opportunity; a past error may urge a grand retrieval.
“3668. Nothing is ill, that ends well.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
