Quotes by John Donne

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

#John Donne

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

#John Donne

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

#John Donne

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

#John Donne

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say,...

#John Donne

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much...

#Chastity

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven

#Despair

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated...

#Death And Dying, #Funerals

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal...

#Beauty, #Grace

As soon as there was two there was pride

#Pride

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

#Pleasure

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

#Reason