Quotes of: Fain Keyword

Married folk are like rats in a trap -- fain to get others in, but fain to be out themselves.

Scottish

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

Walter Raleigh

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Plato

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Henry David Thoreau

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Joseph Addison

...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

Jeremiah Burroughs

Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.

The Book of Tea

I would forget it fain, But oh, it presses to my memory, Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.

Romeo and Juliet

I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

Idylls of the King

The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.

E. Hoffmann Price

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.

Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Edna St. Vincent Millay

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain...

Henri Bergson

Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illum...

Against Nature

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

Le plus bel amour de Don Juan précédé de Le rideau cramoisi

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitti...

North and South

I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand, who lodges his friends in the belly of whales, dies uttering a cry, and rises again at the end of three days; things absurd in themselves, and completely oppo...

Madame Bovary

The sea is a body in a thousand ways that don't add up, because adding is too stable a transaction for that flux, but the waves come in in a roar and then ebb, almost silent but for the fain suck of sand and snap of bubbles, over and over, a heartbea...

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

There are men who put the weight of a coffin into their deliberations as they bargain for Cashmere shawls for their wives, as they go up the staircase of a theatre, or think of going to the Bouffons, or of setting up a carriage; who are murderers in ...

Honore de Balzac

Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars were dimmed, and day came glimmering eastward silver-grey. Then trembling-veiled she would appear, and dance before him, half in fear; there flitting just befor...

The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two

He talks about God, and loving God. he says that when we open to loving a person, whether that person is a spouse, friend, or child, we open our hearts to loving God. He says when we let someone love us, we're opening our hearts to god's love. he say...

The Lessons of Love: Rediscovering Our Passion for Live When It All Seems Too Hard to Take