It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise. Ham., ii. 2.
It oft falls out to have what we would have; we speak not what we mean. Meas. for Meas., ii. 4.
It requires a great deal of boldness and a 10 great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. Emerson.
It requires a great deal of poetry to gild the pill of poverty. Mme. Deluzy.
It requires a long time to know any one. Cervantes.
It requires more than mere genius to be an author. La Bruyère.
It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in the world. Goethe.
It requires no preterhuman force of will in any 15 young man or woman ... to get at least half an hour out of a solid busy day for good and disinterested reading. John Morley.
It seems a law of society to despise a man who looks discontented because its requirements have compelled him to part with all he values in his life. Goethe.
It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only ones as aren't wanted i' the other world. George Eliot.