Alfred Austin Quotes
1835 – 1913
English poet, Poet Laureate from 1896 to 1913.
25 quotesAbout Alfred Austin on Wikipedia
“Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.”
“Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings, / And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.”
“Death is the looking-glass of life wherein / Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.”
“Your logic may be good, / But dialectics never saved a soul.”
“Never fear to weep; / For tears are summer showers to the soul, / To keep it fresh and green.”
“Public opinion is no more than this, / What people think that other people think.”
“He is dead already who doth not feel / Life is worth living still.”
“'Tis a world / Where all is bought, and nothing's worth the price.”
“There is no office in this needful world / But dignifies the doer if done well.”
“No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.”
“Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.”
“He who saves an ancient tree does better even than he who plants a new one.”
“A writer cannot take his occupation too seriously. He cannot take himself too lightly.”
“Whatever else he may do, a critic reveals and criticises himself.”
“One must be intoxicated by scenery, in order to appreciate it.”
“A little knowledge is said to be a dangerous thing, but it is not dangerous to the imagination.”
