 | Saint Thomas More - 1841 - 372 psl.
...desirous, was to frame the city to his appetite. * Shakspeare has imitated this striking sentiment : — " Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water." Of spiritual men he took such as had wit, and were in authority among the people for opinion of their... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 psl.
...sting is not so sharp As friend remember'd not, &c., &c. As you like it. Act ii. Scene 7. Griffith. Men's evil manners live in brass: their virtues We write in water. King Henry VIII. Act iv. Scene 2. Antony. The evil that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred... | |
 | 1896 - 324 psl.
...an' a' that, A man *sa man for a' that," and, as the faithful GRIFFITH observed to Queen KATHERINE, " Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water." So sometimes, when due north, we put a little whiskey in it. But Lord ROSEBERY has found the real happy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 350 psl.
...he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 644 psl.
...vicious of his body, and gave the elergie evil example." * The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 634 psl.
...vicious of his body, and gave the clergie evil example." The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 608 psl.
...Shall be in water writ, but this in marble] Here Theobald cites Shakespeare's Henry the Eighth ; (( Men's evil manners live in brass,, their virtues We write in water." and Catullus ; He "s taken prisoner by the citizens, Fearing s the lord Philaster. _, O t^~ Dion. Oh,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 494 psl.
...is now ; nothing. Of his OWQ body he was ill , and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble Madam , Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now? Kath. Yes, good Griffith; I were malicious... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 364 psl.
...he is now, nothing. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Grif. Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now 1 Kath. Yes, good Griffith ; I were malicious... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 psl.
...bottom, and let nothing go till you understand it as thoroughly as your powers will enable you. — Men's evil manners live in brass their virtues we write in water. — A good word is an easy obligation not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.... | |
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Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 
