Poet Quotes

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.

Be it whim or emergency, the modern laboratory is equally at the service of romance, equally ready to gratify mankind with a torpedo or a toy.

All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.