Arthur Clough Quotes

#1. Loving if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things mind it, mind it!

Arthur Hugh Clough

#2. Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#3. Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#4. I choose to ignore hell in my life. When I was a little kid I asked my Dad "Am I going to go to hell?" because I'd heard about hell. And he said, "Nothing you're gonna do will get you into hell." And so I got to ignore it.

Adam Sandler

#5. No one can keep track of how many people use Internet, how many machines it can reach, or even how many sub- and sub-sub-networks form a part of it.

Barton Gellman

#6. Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#7. Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#8. My wind is turned to bitter north, That was so soft a south before; My sky, that shone so sunny bright, With foggy gloom is clouded o'er My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor; For love, departed once, comes back No more again, no more.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#9. O let me love my love unto myself alone,
And know my knowledge to the world unknown,
No witness to the vision call,
Beholding, unbeheld of all...

Arthur Hugh Clough

#10. Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

Garrison Keillor

#11. The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#12. Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#13. Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh, how can anyone not love poetry, natural machines, large white houses, the brilliance of steel, crimes and wild passions?

Robert Desnos

#14. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#15. The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.

James Joyce

#16. As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!

Arthur Hugh Clough

#17. How pleasant it is to have money.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#18. Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread?

Louis Untermeyer

#19. When you fall; it's not the ending; It's the next chance to perform better than the last one

Harishankar Kaushik

#20. But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

Helen Fielding

#21. In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#22. Allah isgreat, no doubt, and Juxtaposition his prophet.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#23. Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#24. My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.

Nick Kroll

#25. And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#26. What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

Arthur Hugh Clough

#27. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#28. Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!

Arthur Hugh Clough

#29. Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

Arthur Hugh Clough

#30. The sun shone calm and bright on the grass, refreshed by the rain, on the border of pretty stones, on the sparkling yellow rocks. It was a caricature of a happy scene.

Iris Murdoch

#31. Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#32. Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Arthur Hugh Clough

#33. A world where nothing is had for nothing.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#34. There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#35. It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel. -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Lilith Saintcrow

#36. It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#37. We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.

Guy De Maupassant

#38. Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

Arthur Hugh Clough

#39. The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#40. When one drops everything to come to aide one in desperate need of support, that's love

Missy Robertson