[ samuel taylor coleridge Quotes ]
28 Quotations
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
[ Gossip ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 votes
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
[ Sympathy ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
24 votes
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
[ Pride ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
23 votes
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22 votes
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
[ Greatness ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19 votes
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
[ Medicine ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22 votes
How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!
[ Dance and Dancing ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22 votes
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
[ Wit ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 votes
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
[ Tolerance ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
25 votes
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
23 votes
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
[ Enthusiasm ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19 votes
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
[ Kindness ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20 votes
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
[ Honor ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20 votes
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
[ Humor ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20 votes
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
[ Plagiarism ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22 votes
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
[ Animals ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
24 votes
Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
[ Vocabulary ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22 votes
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 votes
Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
[ Song and Singing ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19 votes
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
[ Poetry and Poets ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
22 votes
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
[ Marriage ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
26 votes
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
[ Architecture ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20 votes
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
[ Ideas ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 votes
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
[ Acting and Actors ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
17 votes
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
[ Proverbs ]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18 votes
