“Tis impious in a good man to be sad”

— Edward Young, Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 676.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Tis impious in a good man to be sad" by Edward Young?

Edward Young photo

Edward Young110

English poet 1683–1765

Related quotes

“The pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.”

Apuleius (125–170) Berber prose writer in Latin

The Prophecy of Hermes Trismegistus

“What dares not impious man for cursed Gold!”

John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic

The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis

“Tis hard to feign merriment when the heart is sad.”
Difficile est tristi fingere mente iocum.

Tibullus (-50–-19 BC) poet and writer (0054-0019)

Bk. 3, no. 6, line 34.
Misattributed

“But sad as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer

Part II, line 357
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

“Content thyself to be obscurely good.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honor is a private station.”

Joseph Addison book Cato

Act IV, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)

“A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle.”

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 7.

“A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.”

Thornton Wilder Our Town

"Mr. Webb"
Our Town (1938)

“It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.”

Terry Pratchett book Making Money

Source: Making Money

“Beautiful weakness! oh, if weak,
That woman's heart should tinge her cheek!
'Tis sad to change it for the strength
That heart and cheek must know at length.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Golden Violet - The Queen of Cyprus
The Golden Violet (1827)

“Sad stories make good books”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

Related topics