Influence Quotes

“Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?”

“Haply a woman's voice may do some goodWhen articles too nicely urged be stood on.”

“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”

“If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”

“How much an ill word may empoison liking!”

“Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

“O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.”

“Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.”

“My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.”

“What the great ones do, the less will prattle of”

“Gold were as good as twenty orators.”

“Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.”

“Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.”

“The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.”

“The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.”

“Soft pity enters an iron gate.”

“All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.”

“Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.”

“You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,It will inflame you, it will make you mad.”

“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.”

“The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.”

“Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.”

“Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.”

“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.”

“Adult males are what their moms designed them.”