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  • 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul. -- Judy Garland
  • Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. -- Euripides
  • On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet. -- Alexander Brome
  • Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect You to lead me,' an' He always did. -- Harriet Tubman
  • Twas the night before Thanksgiving. -- Craig Ferguson
  • Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul. -- Judy Garland
  • Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it. -- William Shakespeare
  • 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. -- Euripides
  • That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
  • Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone. -- Teresa Medeiros
  • Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. -- John Gay
  • 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse? -- Hannah More
  • Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply. -- William Cowper
  • An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,'Twas the 'Vengeance of the Little Yellow God'. -- J. Milton Hayes
  • Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. -- Andrew Marvell
  • Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'. -- Craig Ferguson
  • Twas when the seas were roaring With hollow blasts of wind, A damsel lay deploring, All on a rock reclined. -- John Gay
  • A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough. -- Alexander Pope
  • Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs. -- Martin Luther
  • 'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that. -- George Farquhar
  • Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. -- Lewis Carroll
  • To let a fool kiss you is bad...To let a kiss fool you is worse. 'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul. -- Judy Garland
  • Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back. -- Stephen King
  • 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up. -- William Shakespeare
  • Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see. -- David Macbeth Moir
  • This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders. -- Herman Melville
  • 'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet. -- Alexander Brome
  • 'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted. -- Lord Byron
  • Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears. Pass it on. -- Henry Burton
  • Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors. -- Robert Frost
  • Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters; like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail. -- Lord Byron
  • 'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived! -- Aphra Behn
  • Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn't that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader. -- Maya Banks
  • Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year. -- David Davis
  • England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. -- Walter Scott
  • Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it. -- Elizabeth I
  • O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her. -- Lord Byron
  • Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came. -- Sidney Lanier
  • Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit. -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
  • Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone. -- John Selden
  • I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all! -- Emily Dickinson
  • We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
  • Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive. -- Cameron Mathison
  • So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey. -- Jerry Garcia
  • What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know. -- Statius
  • There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. -- Alexander Pope
  • If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. -- John Donne
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  • Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies. -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Gadzooks you plagiaries of truth, for twas foreseen by mine own eyes that this world is flat and straddled by two platypus's being ridden by a sea horse........ -- Steve Merrick
  • There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I. -- A. E. Housman
  • It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying. -- Helen Mirren
  • And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win. "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory." -- Robert Southey
  • Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did. -- Harriet Tubman
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