Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Topics: Being Bad Quotes

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government...

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language religion government...

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon...

Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon...

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of...

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of...

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a...

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a...

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace;...

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union...

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union...

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of...

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...