“Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)
“Fortune have somewhat the nature of a woman; if she be too much wooed, she is the farther off.”
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) Holy Roman Emperor
Source: As quoted in The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II, by Francis Bacon
“Thou shalt learn,
Late though it be, the lesson to be wise.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1425 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
How shall I woo?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Oh, be wise, Thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Lines (1795)
“So weak thou art, that fools thy power despise;
And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
To Love, found in Miss Vanhomrigh's desk after her death, in Swift's handwriting
“If thou canst see sharp, look and judge wisely, says the philosopher.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VIII, 38
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII