248 Quotes by Thomas Moore

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.