17 Quotes By Jeremy Taylor


A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Jeremy Taylor on alone

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
Jeremy Taylor on anger

Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor on friendship

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor on friendship

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor on home

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor on knowledge

The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
Jeremy Taylor on knowledge

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor on learning

Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor on love

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Jeremy Taylor on marriage

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
Jeremy Taylor on marriage

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Jeremy Taylor on religion

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Jeremy Taylor on trust

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Jeremy Taylor on fool

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Jeremy Taylor on power

Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Jeremy Taylor on revenge

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
Jeremy Taylor on wisdom