Quotes by : Robert Southey

Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.

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

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us....

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte....

Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot....

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

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