Control Quotes

“Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.”

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.”

“Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,Subjected tribute to commanding love,Against whose fury and unmatched forceThe aweless lion could not wage the fightNor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.”

“If it be you that stirs these daughters' heartsAgainst their father, fool me not so muchTo bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,And let not women's weapons, water drops,Stain my man's cheeks.”

“You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.”

“The let-alone lies not in your good will.”

“Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.”

“Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!”

“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”

“A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!”

“Let us leave hurry to slaves.”

“Let every man be master of his time.”

“Old Time the clock-setter.”

“I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.”

“To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.”

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”

“Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.”

“I will be master of what is mine own:She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,My household stuff, my field, my barn,My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.”

“The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.”

“She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.”

“Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.”

“And nature must obey necessity.”