Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Topics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old...

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old...

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the...

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the...

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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

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

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...

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...

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion....

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion....

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten...

$The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten...$

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as...

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of...

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of...

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse...

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse...

Books are a uniquely portable magic

Books are a uniquely portable magic

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass.

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass.