Robert Browning
Poet, Playwright
"How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!"
Fetters quotes
Fetters
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters."
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself."
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"Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves."
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"Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator."
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