Thomas More Quotes

but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to kee...

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.

The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them...

The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel ...

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would no...

It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite root...

As God loves me, when I consider this, then every modern society seems to me to be nothing but a con...

and, indeed, nature has so made us, that we all love to be flattered and to please ourselves with ou...

But what they find most amazing and despicable is the insanity of those who all but worship the rich...

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, f...

It was evidently quite obvious to a powerful intellect like his that the one essential condition for...

[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are ...

Another kind of bodily pleasure is that which results from an undisturbed and vigorous constitution ...

They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so mu...

Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to ...

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither abilit...

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements wh...

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan...

This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure,...

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his ...

...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this...

To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Taste...

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtu...

but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to kee...

The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.

Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or ruler...

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets but as truly loves on to the close.

What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of it's favors to those calle...

But Nature granted to gold and silver no function with which we cannot easily dispense. Human folly ...

If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate ...

We are all in the same cart, going to execution; how can I hate anyone or wish anyone harm?

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion an...

One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not...

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill tha...

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the ...

Alas! how light a cause may move dissention between hearts that love!