Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. Votes: 22
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them. Votes: 12
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. Votes: 9
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. Votes: 6
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. Votes: 4
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. Votes: 0
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it. Votes: 0
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. Votes: 0
Absence - that common cure of love. Votes: 0
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry. Votes: 0
Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. Votes: 0
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0
We of the craft are all crazy. Votes: 0
All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most. Votes: 0
The dew of compassion is a tear. Votes: 0
Fame is the thirst of youth. Votes: 0
He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery. Votes: 0
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught, by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Votes: 0
Happiness was born a twin. Votes: 0
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? Votes: 0
Rough Johnson, the great moralist. Votes: 0
Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain Votes: 0
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. Votes: 0
Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Votes: 0
There's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in, Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine. Votes: 0
The glory and the nothing of a name Votes: 0
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. Votes: 0
The busy have no time for tears. Votes: 0
Prolonged endurance tames the bold. Votes: 0
Who loves, raves. Votes: 0
I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. Votes: 0
...let joy be unconfined... Votes: 0
[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. Votes: 0
A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering âI will ne'er consentââconsented. Votes: 0
A pretty woman is a welcome guest. Votes: 0
As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene. Votes: 0
But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. Votes: 0
But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. Votes: 0
Come what may, I have been blest. Votes: 0
Critics are already made. Votes: 0
Eternity forbids thee to forget. Votes: 0
Fill high the cup with Samian wine! Votes: 0
Fills The air around with beauty. Votes: 0
Frienship is eros...without wings Votes: 0
Hatred is the madness of the heart. Votes: 0
History - the devil's scripture Votes: 0
I am ashes where once I was fire... Votes: 0
I am not now That which I have been. Votes: 0
I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania. Votes: 0
I learned to love despair. Votes: 0
I loved my country, and I hated him. Votes: 0
I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts. Votes: 0
Land of lost gods and godlike men. Votes: 0
Life is too short for chess. Votes: 0
My native land, good night! Votes: 0
Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight. Votes: 0
Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die. Votes: 0
Poetry should only occupy the idle. Votes: 0
Self praise is no praise at all. Votes: 0
That low vice, curiosity! Votes: 0
The devil was the first democrat Votes: 0
The poetry of speech. Votes: 0
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money. Votes: 0
Think not I am what I appear. Votes: 0
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. Votes: 0
To have joy, one must share it. Votes: 0
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great? Votes: 0
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said. Votes: 0
Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair? Votes: 0
With thee all tales are sweet; each clime has charms; earth - sea alike - our world within our arms. Votes: 0
Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared. Votes: 0
I see before me the gladiator lie. Votes: 0