David Herbert Lawrence Quotes


Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Advice 369
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Motivational 326
Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.The very deep did rot: O Christ!That ever this should be!Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Water 279
Water, water, everywhere And all the boards did shrink Water, water everywhere Nor any drop to drink. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems 231
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge architecture 201
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pride 201
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Experience 183
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Words 132
Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sleep 124
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Actors 103
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gossip 101
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Profanity 100
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Language 97
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sympathy 97
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Tolerance 97
A grief without a pang void dark and drear A drowsy stifled unimpassioned grief Which finds no natural outlet or relief In word or sigh or tear. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Darkness 94
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Committed 93
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heavenand there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dreams 92
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Medicine 92
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Enthusiasm 92
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Change 91
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 opinion of himself. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mind 90
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Uncategorized 90
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Recovery 89
Summer has set in with its usual severity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seasons 87
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ideas 86
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Acute 84
All men, even the most surly, are influenced by affection. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love 83
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Laziness 82
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wisdom 82
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Samuel Taylor Coleridge AlcoholAlcoholism 78
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Reform 78
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Love 75
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nature 74
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Uncategorized 73
Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Knowledge 73
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mother 73
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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Profanity 73
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Work 72
Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Snow 72
Good and bad men are less than they seem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Goodness 72
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Begins 71
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration Samuel Taylor Coleridge Uncategorized 71
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Language 71
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Marriage 71
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kindness 70
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,Whether the summer clothe the general earth with greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing between the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Seasons 68
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plagiarism 67
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Delights 65
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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friend 65

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