155 Quotes by Robert Southey

Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But ’t is the happy that have called thee so.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness.

The pulpit is a clergyman’s parade; the parish is his field of active service.

Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman’s plighted faith.

The field of glory,” said he, “is a large one, and was never more open to any one than at this moment to you. Rome would throw open her gates and receive you as her deliverer; and the pope would owe his restoration to a heretic.

Well,” said he, as he left the ELEPHANT, “I have fought contrary to orders, and I shall perhaps be hanged. Never mind: let them!

Cupid “the little greatest god.”

I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire, – the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.

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