Thomas More
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More, venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 February 1478
Thomas More quotes about
next theologian stills
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
taken men anxiety
In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.
falling-in-love war romance
Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
educational men garden
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
fear men use
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
uprising hounds
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
law giving safety
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake
helping-others giving comfort
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
distance heaven way
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
kings men lions
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
heart pride men
Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.
hope men drowning
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
poetry reason rhyme
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
compassion vegan animal-rights
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.