661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

And in today already walks tomorrow.