Famous quotes containing the words english proverb, seventeenth-century english, english and/or proverb:
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.”
—Seventeenth-century English saying.
“An English man does not travel to see English men.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.”
—French proverb.
George Bernard Shaw adapted this proverb in Heartbreak House, act 2: “One turns the cheek: the other kisses it. One provides the cash: the other spends it.”