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Oscar Wilde: Each of the...

Oscar Wilde: Each of the...

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the...

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Oscar Wilde: A well-tied tie...

Oscar Wilde: A well-tied tie...

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born...

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Source: In Webster's...

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Thornton Wilder: The theatre is...

Thornton Wilder: The theatre is...

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral...

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Thornton Wilder: I was an...

Thornton Wilder: I was an...

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: By blood a...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: By blood a...

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But the jingling...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: But the jingling...

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour feels.

Source: Locksley...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And is there...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And is there...

And is there any moral shut
Within the bosom of the rose?


Source: The Day-Dream,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Because right is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Because right is...

Because right is right, to follow right were wisdom, in the scorn of consequence.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Closer is He...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Closer is He...

Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

Source: The Higher...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I seemed to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I seemed to...

I seemed to move among a world of ghosts,
And feel myself the shadow of a dream.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O fall'n at...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O fall'n at...

O fall'n at length that tower of strength
Which stood four-square to all the winds that...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: May there be...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: May there be...

May there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.


Source: Crossing the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O hard, when...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O hard, when...

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Source: The Princess, II, 273
-- Alfred, Lord...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our island home<br>Is...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our island home
Is...

Our island home
Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.


Source: The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The kindly earth...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The kindly earth...

The kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

Source: Locksley Hall,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The long day...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The long day...

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The folly of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The folly of...

The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So much to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So much to...

So much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The gardener Adam...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The gardener Adam...

The gardener Adam and his wife
Smile at the claims of long descent.


Source: Lady...

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