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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with S >> Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Quote #1: | "Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind." |
| Quote #2: | "Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole." |
| Quote #3: | "All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame." |
| Quote #4: | "Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war" |
| Quote #5: | "Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink." |
| Quote #6: | "If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself." |
| Quote #7: | "No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor." |
| Quote #8: | "He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all." |
| Quote #9: | "Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least." |
| Quote #10: | "Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming." |
| Quote #11: | "I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order." |
| Quote #12: | "Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism." |
| Quote #13: | "Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never." |
| Quote #14: | "Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick." |
| Quote #15: | "He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel." |
| Quote #16: | "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." |
| Quote #17: | "Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." |
| Quote #18: | "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." |
| Quote #19: | "The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." |
| Quote #20: | "Poetry the best words in the best order." |
| Quote #21: | "There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch." |
| Quote #22: | "Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom." |
| Quote #23: | "There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection." |
| Quote #24: | "Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor." |
| Quote #25: | "Friendship is like a sheltering tree." |
| Quote #26: | "He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all." |
| Quote #27: | "What comes from the heart goes to the heart." |
| Quote #28: | "I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration." |
| Quote #29: | "An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye." |
| Quote #30: | "What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul." |
| Quote #31: | "Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole." |
| Quote #32: | "Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." |
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