Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by William Dunbar

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish poet William Dunbar.

Last updated on December 20, 2024.

William Dunbar was a Scottish makar poet active in the late fifteenth century and the early sixteenth century. He was closely associated with the court of King James IV and produced a large body of work in Scots distinguished by its great variation in themes and literary styles. He was likely a native of East Lothian, as assumed from a satirical reference in The Flyting of Dumbar and Kennedie. His surname is also spelt Dumbar.

Scottish - Poet | 1460 - 1520

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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

William Dunbar

London, thou art the flower of cities all!

William Dunbar

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

William Dunbar

All love is lost but upon God alone.

William Dunbar

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

William Dunbar

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

William Dunbar

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

William Dunbar