54 Quotes by Coventry Patmore

A woman is a foreign land.

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the “courage of their convictions.”

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.

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: ‘Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?’

The sunshine dreaming upon Salmon’s heightIs not so sweet and whiteAs the most heretofore sin-spotted SoulThat darts to its delightStraight from the absolution of a faithful fight.

A moment’s fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.

The midge’s wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.