Quotes by Robert Southey

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions;...

#Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams...

#Robert Southey

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which...

#Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced...

#Robert Southey

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom...

#Robert Southey

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

#Robert Southey

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes...

#Ambition, #Hope

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to...

#Ambition

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced...

#Deception

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means,...

#Evil, #Imagination

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who...

#Cute Friendship, #Friends, #Goodbye

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that...

#Home, #Magic