“He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.”

—  Henry Wotton

Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (1651).

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 "He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died." by Henry Wotton?
Henry Wotton photo
Henry Wotton 13
English ambassador 1568–1639

Related quotes

William Ewart Gladstone photo

“As he lived, so he died — all display, without reality or genuineness.”

William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom

Of Benjamin Disraeli, in May 1881 to his secretary, Edward Hamilton, regarding Disraeli's instructions to be given a modest funeral. Disraeli was buried in his wife's rural churchyard grave. Gladstone, Prime Minister at the time, had offered a state funeral and a burial in Westminster Abbey. Quoted in chapter 11 of Gladstone: A Biography (1954) by Philip Magnus
1880s

“He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

Brad Paisley photo

“I know she's not perfect but she tries so hard for me
And I thank god that she isn't 'cause how boring would that be?
It's the little imperfections, it's the sudden change in plans.
When she misreads the directions and we're lost but holdin' hands.
Yeah I live for little moments like that.”

Brad Paisley (1972) American country music singer

Little Moments, written by Brad Paisley and Chris DuBois.
Song lyrics, Mud on the Tires (2003)

Nicholas Sparks photo

“Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Miguel de Cervantes photo

“For if he like a madman lived,
At least he like a wise one died.”

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

Don Quixote's epitaph
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book IV

“CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

“We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Oliver Heaviside photo

“The following story is true. There was a little boy, and his father said, “Do try to be like other people. Don’t frown.” And he tried and tried, but could not. So his father beat him with a strap; and then he was eaten up by lions.”

Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925) electrical engineer, mathematician and physicist

Electromagnetic Theory (1912), Volume III; p. 1; "The Electrician" Pub. Co., London.
Context: The following story is true. There was a little boy, and his father said, “Do try to be like other people. Don’t frown.” And he tried and tried, but could not. So his father beat him with a strap; and then he was eaten up by lions.
Reader, if young, take warning by his sad life and death. For though it may be an honour to be different from other people, if Carlyle’s dictum about the 30 million be still true, yet other people do not like it. So, if you are different, you had better hide it, and pretend to be solemn and wooden-headed. Until you make your fortune. For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do. In particular, if you are going to write a book, remember the wooden-headed. So be rigorous; that will cover a multitude of sins. And do not frown.

John Lothrop Motley photo

“As long as he lived, he was the guiding-star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the little children cried in the street.”

John Lothrop Motley The Rise of the Dutch Republic

The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1856; New York: Harper, 1861) vol. 3, part 6, ch. 7, p. 627.
Of William the Silent. In a footnote Motley cites the original of his last phrase in an official report made by the Greffier Corneille Aertsens: "dont par toute la ville l'on est en si grand duil tellement que les petits enfans en pleurent par les rues."

Related topics