Quotation.Cloud - A repository of notable quotations from across time and space

   

Authors by Last Name

Authors by First Name



Quotations by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePleasure, most often delusive - Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
Happiness is minute fractions - The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Where critics come from - Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers . . . if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.
Immutable and deliberate nature of poetry - In poetry, in which every line, every phrase, may pass the ordeal of deliberation and deliberate choice, it is possible, and barely possible, to attain that ultimatum which I have ventured to propose as the infallible test of a blameless style; namely: its untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning.
Love of Christianity more than truth - He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.
The depths of Shakespeare's mind - Shakespeare is of no age -- nor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.


Top 100 Topics

life  love  freedom  learning  happiness  truth  government  death  war  power  nature  animals  politics  character  beauty  science  religion  education  women  friendship  success  knowledge  books  children  fear  writing  dogs  history  age  work  wisdom  wealth  leadership  thought  mind  change  creativity  reading  intelligence  liberty  God  universe  rights  art  time  evil  mistakes  opinions  humanity  inspiration  virtue  peace  cats  motivation  aging  purpose  authority  good  progress  suffering  thinking  teaching  responsibility  courage  marriage  ideas  relationships  humans  laws  society  confidence  future  honesty  pain  space  individuality  personality  failure  perseverance  labor  anger  equality  business  greatness  danger  facts  heart  genius  strength  actions  humor  action  kindness  people  earth  youth  talent  immortality  simplicity  self 

Right