Austin Dobson Quotes

#1. Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

Timothy Garton Ash

#2. The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,
It wavers to a rose.

Henry Austin Dobson

#3. Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

Henry Austin Dobson

#4. He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

Henry Austin Dobson

#5. In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

Sigmund Freud

#6. Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more.

Henry Austin Dobson

#7. The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

James Comey

#8. All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

Henry Austin Dobson

#9. Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

#10. What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

Henry Austin Dobson

#11. Feelings are fleeting, no matter how eart-shattering they seem; they never last, always change.

Gena Showalter

#12. I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet.

Henry Austin Dobson

#13. All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,
The coin, Tiberius.

Henry Austin Dobson

#14. My books are my brain and my heart made visible.

Merilyn Simonds

#15. Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
All things, in short, to which belong
The charm, the grace that Time
makes strong,
All these I prize, but (entre nous)
Old friends are best!

Henry Austin Dobson

#16. O, Love's but a dance,
Where Time plays the fiddle!
See the couples advance -
O, Love's but a dance!
A whisper, a glance,
"Shall we twirl down the middle?"
O, Love's but a dance,
Where Time plays the fiddle!

Henry Austin Dobson

#17. I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.

Tom Mison

#18. In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!

Henry Austin Dobson

#19. In merest prudence men should teach ...
That science ranks as monstrous things
Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings
E'en Angel's wings!
are fictions.

Henry Austin Dobson

#20. Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

Henry Austin Dobson

#21. Well you know, all law is about injustice.

Alan Dershowitz