661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Ah why refuse the blameless bliss? Can danger lurk within a kiss?

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

A sight to dream of, not to tell!