1850 · Skopia

Showing 32 quotes from 1850

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the end of Being and ideal Grace.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1850

★ 9.3

Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

1850

★ 7.0

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 5.3

All's fair in love and war.

Frank E. Smedley

1850

★ 5.3

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 5.3

On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 5.3

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Montaigne; or, the Skeptic · 1850

★ 4.5

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 4.5

She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 4.4

Novel · Coming of age story

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride over all obstacles, and win the race!

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield · 1850

★ 3.8

Personal journal

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

Henry David Thoreau

1850

★ 3.7

Play · Comedy (play)

Another’s soul is a dark forest.

1850

★ 3.7

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H. · 1850

★ 3.6

I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1850

★ 3.6

Autobiography and memoir

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Margaret Fuller

1850

★ 3.6

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter · 1850

★ 3.6

A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast.

Allan Cunningham

1850

★ 3.5

If thou wilt ease thine heart Of lover and all its smart Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

1850

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

The Personal History of David Copperfield · 1850

★ 2.3

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1850

★ 2.1

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