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

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Topics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented...

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in...

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in...

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light...

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light...

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed...

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry;...

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry;...

Poetry: the best words in the best order

Poetry: the best words in the best order

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...

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...

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.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before...

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before...

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence...

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence...

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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

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

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is...

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is...