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Oscar Wilde: I don't want...

Oscar Wilde: I don't want...

I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay...

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Oscar Wilde: Flowers are as...

Oscar Wilde: Flowers are as...

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

Source: In The...

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Oscar Wilde: The true perfection...

Oscar Wilde: The true perfection...

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Believing where we...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Believing where we...

Believing where we cannot prove.

Source: In Memoriam, Prologue
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But the churchmen...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But the churchmen...

But the churchmen fain would kill their church,/As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Cleave ever to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Cleave ever to...

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.

Source: The Ancient Sage, 68
--...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Cursed be the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Cursed be the...

Cursed be the gold that gilds the straitened forehead of a fool!

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dreams are true...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Dreams are true...

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Source: The Higher...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But I was...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But I was...

But I was born to other things.

Source: In Memoriam, 120 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For words, like...

For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.


Source: In...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God's finger touched...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: God's finger touched...

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Source: In Memoriam, 85 (Note: the stanza...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For now I...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: For now I...

For now I see the true old times are dead,
When every morning brought a noble chance,
And every chance brought...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her eyes are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Her eyes are...

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.

Source: In Memoriam, 32 (Note: the stanza...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I embrace the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I embrace the...

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

Source: Maud, III
-- Alfred,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let the great...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Let the great...

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I the heir...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I the heir...

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Source: Locksley Hall,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To-night the winds...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To-night the winds...

To-night the winds begin to rise
And roar from yonder dropping day:
The last red leaf is whirled away,
The...

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Ogden Nash: You are much...

Ogden Nash: You are much...

You are much happier when you are happy than when you ain't.

Source:
-- Ogden...

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Ogden Nash: To be an...

Ogden Nash: To be an...

To be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.

Source:...

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Ogden Nash: To keep your...

Ogden Nash: To keep your...

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're...

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