Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Quote by Robert Burns

Topics: Robert Burns Quotes

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive...

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches...

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches...

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Suspense is worse than disappointment

Suspense is worse than disappointment

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have...

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have...

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever.

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my...

Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my...

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.