Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes

Quote byRobert Burton · 1577–1640

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Democritus Junior to the Reader.

English (original)

Smile with an intent to do mischief, or cozen him whom he salutes.

— Robert Burton

The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.

I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling.

All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

I had a heavy heart and an ugly head, a kind of impostume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.