Quotes by Robert Southey

About Robert Southey:

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. Although his fame has long been eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey's verse still enjoys some popularity.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Robert Southey

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Robert Southey

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.

Robert Southey

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

Robert Southey

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

Robert Southey

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things.

Robert Southey

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

Robert Southey

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Robert Southey

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Robert Southey

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Robert Southey

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Robert Southey

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Robert Southey

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Robert Southey

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Southey
  • DescriptionBritish poet
  • BornAugust 12, 1774
  • DiedMarch 21, 1843
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; Portugal
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Historian