The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Sir T. Elyot

2 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Pheasant. Fesaunt excedeth all fowles in sweetnesse and holsomnesse, and is equall to capon in nourishynge.— filed under Birds-Pelican
Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take.— filed under Temperance
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