161 Quotes by Thomas Hood

The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade – now bright and sunny – But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon – so called – of honey!

How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp’d with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.

'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying; Old age, begin sighing!

He comes to the world, as a gentleman comes To a lodging ready furnished.

There's a double beauty whenever a swanSwims on a lake with her double thereon.

Oh! if it be to choose and call thee mine, / Love, thou art every day my Valentine.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.