Quotes by Robert Burns

Robert Burns

Robert Burns

Scottish Poet

Lived from: 1759 - 1796

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 january 1759 Died: 21 july 1796

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  • Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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  • I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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  • Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
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  • Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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  • Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
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  • Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
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  • Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - we had never been broken-hearted.
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  • How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
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  • I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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  • My love is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.
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  • Suspense is worst than disappointment.
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  • Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
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  • The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
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  • There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
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  • When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
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  • Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
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What are the most famous quotes from Robert Burns?

The two most famous quotes from Robert Burns are:

  • "Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve."
  • "I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration."

When did Robert Burns live?

Robert Burns was born in 1759 and died in the year 1796.