At the Gate of the Convent: And Other P...
A source page for quotes linked to Alfred Austin.
“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”
“Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!”
“Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.”
“He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.”
“The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.”
“Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.”
“Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."”
“Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”
“Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”
“There is no gardening without humility”
“Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.”
“We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.”