Peace Quotes

“This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.”

“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.”

“So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.”

“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.”

“Pray you now, forget and forgive.”

“So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“Death rock me asleep.”

“Pardon's the word to all.”

“Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.”

“To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,And give as soft attachment to thy senses,As infants empty of all thought.”

“Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.”

“Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.”

“In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,To reap the harvest of perpetual peaceBy this one bloody trial of sharp war.”

“To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”

“The time of universal peace is near.Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked worldShall bear the olive freely.”

“I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world”

“Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.”

“I prithee gentle friend,Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, swayIn this uncivil and unjust extentAgainst thy peace.”

“GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.”

“Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.”

“I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.”

“A turn or two I'll walkTo still my beating mind.”

“Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.”

“If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?”

“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.”