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Famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
“Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.”
“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
“Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
“A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.”
“A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.”
“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
“Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
“Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”
“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
“Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.”
“Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.”
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”