The Faerie Queene Quotes

#1. Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"
This also became Conrad's epitaph.

Joseph Conrad

#2. I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do - so much have I enjoyed it.

C.S. Lewis

#3. Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Janet Spens

#4. Love is a war of lightning,
and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness.

Pablo Neruda

#5. The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#6. The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. There are many goals but one path - the path of compassion.

Amit Ray

#8. For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

Edmund Spenser

#9. If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy