35 Quotes by William Story

What looks like swindling with a petty sum,Is on a grand and speculative scaleHonest enough, so it be large enough.

What looks like swindling with a petty sum, Is on a grand and speculative scale Honest enough, so it be large enough.

Man is content to know that he is loved,And tires the constant phrase "I love" to hear;But woman doubts the instrument is brokeUnless she daily hear the sweet refrain.

Man is content to know that he is loved, And tires the constant phrase "I love" to hear; But woman doubts the instrument is broke Unless she daily hear the sweet refrain.

Nothing can be sour and sharpAs a love that has decayed --On the loose strings of the harpOnly discord can be made.

Nothing can be sour and sharp As a love that has decayed -- On the loose strings of the harp Only discord can be made.

On the broken stem of dreamsOnly disappointments grow.

On the broken stem of dreams Only disappointments grow.

But the gray and the cold are hauntedBy a beauty akin to pain, --By a sense of a something wanted,That never will come again.