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Samuel Taylor Coleridge32 quotes
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1834Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1816All 32 quotes →John Gay9 quotes
From wine what sudden friendship springs! — John Gay · 1732I know you Lawyers can, with ease,
Twist words and meanings as you please;
That language, by your skill made pliant,
Will bend to favour every client. — John Gay · 1732Praising all alike, is praising none. — John Gay · 1714A woman's friendship ever ends in love. — John Gay · 1720That politician tops his part,
Who readily can lie with art. — John Gay · 1732Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty. — John Gay · 1728All 9 quotes →Sir Walter Raleigh8 quotes
Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1590Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618But true Love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning;
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning. — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1580Even such is time that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust! — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!... Thou hast drawn together all the farstretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet (here lies). — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1614All 8 quotes →Joshua Reynolds4 quotes
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid, and works its effect itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds · 1774It is the very same taste which relishes a demonstration in geometry, that is pleased with the resemblance of a picture to an original, and touched with the harmony of music. — Joshua Reynolds · 1776The mind is but a barren soil; is a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. — Joshua Reynolds · 1774If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. — Joshua Reynolds · 1769Agatha Christie3 quotes
With method and logic one can accomplish anything! — Agatha Christie · 1924It is completely unimportant... That is why it is so interesting. — Agatha Christie · 1926Invention... Arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. — Agatha Christie · 1976Mary Chudleigh2 quotes
Wife and Servant are the same,
But only differ in the name. — Mary Chudleigh · 1703Then shun, oh! shun that wretched state
And all the fawning flatterers hate:
Value yourselves, and men despise
You must be proud if you'll be wise. — Mary Chudleigh · 1703Saki2 quotes
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. — Saki · 1924Women and elephants never forget an injury. — Saki · 1904Charles Kingsley1 quote
When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day. — Charles Kingsley · 1863Francis Drake1 quote
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. — Francis Drake · 1587Henry Austin Dobson1 quote
Fame is a food that dead men eat,-
I have no stomach for such meat. — Henry Austin Dobson · 1906Richard Hooker1 quote
Alteration though it be from worse to better hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty. — Richard Hooker · 1593Robert Falcon Scott1 quote
Great God! this is an awful place. — Robert Falcon Scott · 1912W.K. Clifford1 quote
It is wrong always, everywhere and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — W.K. Clifford · 1877