Robert Southey Quotes

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)

Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.

Is but the threshold of eternity.

Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?