#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.”

“I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.”

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”

“Lose yourself in nature and find peace”

“Truth hath a quiet breast.”

“Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.”

“Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!”

“Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.”

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.”

“On your eyelids crown the god of sleep,Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleepAs is the difference betwixt day and nightThe hour before the heavenly-harness'd teamBegins his golden progress in the east.”

“Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.”

“Better be with the dead,Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,Than on the torture of the mind to lieIn restless ecstasy.”

“Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;And now, instead of mounting barbed steedsTo fright the souls of fearful adversaries,He capers nimbly in a lady's chamberTo the lascivious pleasing of a lute.”

“But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleepIn the affliction of these terrible dreamsThat shake us nightly.”

“So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!”

“Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.”

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.”

“Good words are better than bad strokes.”

“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.”

“What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.”

“I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.”

“So shaken as we are, so wan with care,Find we a time for frighted peace to pantAnd breathe short-winded accents of new broilsTo be commenced in stronds afar remote.”

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”

“That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.”