153 quotes found
Poet · English · 1788–1824
English poet (1788–1824)
“Fame is the thirst of youth.”
“The busy have no time for tears.”
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
“History is the devil's scripture.”
“Absence - that common cure of love.”
“I am not now That which I have been.”
“I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.”
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
“Friendship is Love without his wings!”
“Who loves, raves.”
“Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!”
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.”
“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.”
“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.”
“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.”
“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
