Famous quotes containing the word worth:
“The gentleness, modesty, and sweetness of her character were warmly expatiated on, that sweetness which makes so essential a part of every womans worth in the judgment of man, that though he sometimes loves where it is not, he can never believe it absent.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“The worth that worthiness should move
Is love, that is the bow of Love.
And love as well the foster can
As can the mighty nobleman.
Sweet saint, tis true you worthy be,
Yet without love nought worth to me.”
—Fulke Greville (15541628)
“Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou knowst thy estimate:
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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