John Denham Quotations

no objection in principle to removing people from the country or preventing them coming here if they are not conducive to the public good.

What won't work is an approach which just says 'We have decided what we are going to do and we are just going to spend a lot more time explaining it to you'.

I think most MPs now believe the police have made a case for an extension but not necessarily as far as 90 days. It is certainly possible that the government could lose it.

It is certainly possible that the government could lose it.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, and doubt a greater mischief than despair.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

The man who first abused his fellows with swear-words instead of bashing their brains out with a club should be counted among those who laid the foundations of civilization.

But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Whatsoever is worthy of their love is worth their anger.

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

It is no exaggeration to say that Israeli policy in the occupied territories is not simply a matter of foreign policy - it is a matter for British domestic security policy too,.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.