There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.

Melancholy Quotes, by Robert Burton

5 out of 5 stars
1 votes

Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.

Murder Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. I, memb. II, subsec. V)

5 out of 5 stars
1 votes

For idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 2, subsect. 6)

5 out of 5 stars
1 votes

All our geese are swans.

Swans Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. 14)

5 out of 5 stars
1 votes

Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?

Moon Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sec. III, mem. 7)

5 out of 5 stars
2 votes

Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.

Devil Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. III)

5 out of 5 stars
2 votes

The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.

Devil Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. I, subsect. III)

5 out of 5 stars
1 votes

'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces; but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment.

Contention Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. II, sc. 3, mem. 7)

3 out of 5 stars
1 votes

When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.

Rome Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (III, 4, 2)

3 out of 5 stars
1 votes

And were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.

Misers Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsec. 12)

2 out of 5 stars
1 votes

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

Deceit Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. IV, memb. 1, subsect. 2)

1 out of 5 stars
1 votes

Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. II, memb. 2, subsect. 3)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. 3)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

Going as if he trod upon eggs.

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 3)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

A man convinced against his will, Is of the some opinion still.

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions.

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.

Proverbs Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.

Proverbial phrases Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. III, memb. 4, subsec. I)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.

Education Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, mem. I, 1)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

Out of too much learning become mad.

Learning Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. 4, memb. 1, subsec. 2)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.

Law Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

Eyes Quotes, by Robert Burton , Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 6, p. 40)

0 out of 5 stars
0 votes