Samuel Taylor Coleridge
28 quotations
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
No one does anything from a single motive.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.