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Oscar Wilde: In married life...

Oscar Wilde: In married life...

In married life three is company and two is none.

Source: The Importance of Being...

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Oscar Wilde: She is absolutely...

Oscar Wilde: She is absolutely...

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and...

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William Wordsworth: The oldest man...

William Wordsworth: The oldest man...

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Source: Resolution and...

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William Wordsworth: To be a...

William Wordsworth: To be a...

To be a prodigal's favourite - then, worse truth,
A miser's pensioner - behold our lot!
O man, that from thy...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Like glimpses of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Like glimpses of...

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I will drink<br>Life...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I will drink
Life...

I will drink
Life to the lees.


Source: Ulysses, 6
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Not the schoolboy...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Not the schoolboy...

Not the schoolboy heat,
The blind hysterics of the Celt.


Source: In Memoriam,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O mother Ida,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O mother Ida,...

O mother Ida, many-fountained Ida,
Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.


Source:...

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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: Revolts, republics, revolutions,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Revolts, republics, revolutions,...

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most
No graver than a schoolboy's barring out.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The moans of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The moans of...

The moans of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sweet is true...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sweet is true...

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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Mark Twain: The man who...

Mark Twain: The man who...

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too...

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Mark Twain: The right word...

Mark Twain: The right word...

The right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as rightly timed pause.

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Mark Twain: The only way...

Mark Twain: The only way...

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather...

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Mark Twain: There ain't no...

Mark Twain: There ain't no...

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with...

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Mark Twain: The way it...

Mark Twain: The way it...

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of...

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Mark Twain: We have not...

Mark Twain: We have not...

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as...

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Mark Twain: Words in haste...

Mark Twain: Words in haste...

Words in haste do friendships waste.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910),...

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Mark Twain: Barring that natural...

Mark Twain: Barring that natural...

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest...

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