54 Quotes by Coventry Patmore

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due respective thrift, Had made brutes men and men divine.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.

Life is not life at all without delight.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.