Author: Robert Southey

Quotes

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

- Robert Southey

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

- Robert Southey

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

- Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

- Robert Southey

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

- Robert Southey

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

- Robert Southey

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

- Robert Southey

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

- Robert Southey

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

- Robert Southey

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