Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English poet and critic

Lived from: 1772 - 1834

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 october 1772 Died: 25 july 1834

  • Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
  • And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
  • No man was ever yet a great poet, without begin at the same time a profound philosopher.
  • An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
  • Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
  • There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
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  • An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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  • Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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  • And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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  • Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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  • No one does anything from a single motive.
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  • To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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  • Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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  • All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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  • Alone, alone, all all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea!
    Rhyme of the ancient mariner (1798)
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  • An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!
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  • And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
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  • Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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  • As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.
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  • As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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  • But what is freedom?
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  • Every principle contains in itself the germs of a prophecy.
    Biographia Literaria ch. 10
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  • Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
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  • Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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  • Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''
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  • Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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What are the most famous quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

The two most famous quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge are:

  • "An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars."
  • "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge live?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772 and died in the year 1834.