Date of birth: 1788-01-22
Date of death: 1824-04-19
Quotes number: 32
Nationality: Scottish
Profession: Poet
A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
