The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

- Henry Wotton

Love lodged in a woman's breast is but a guest.

- Henry Wotton

You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are y…

- Henry Wotton

Ambassadors are honest men sent abroad to lie for their countries.

- Henry Wotton

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Comm…

- Henry Wotton

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

- Henry Wotton

You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes More by your number than your light; You common people of the skies, What are you when…

- Henry Wotton

Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.

- Henry Wotton

An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.

- Henry Wotton