X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Edmund Waller Inspirational Quotes (38)

Page 2 of 2
Filter & Style
Image
Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
Edmund Waller
Image
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
Edmund Waller
Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.
Edmund Waller
Image
Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
Edmund Waller
Image
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
Edmund Waller
Image
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
Image
Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
Edmund Waller
Image
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.
Edmund Waller
Image
In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.
Edmund Waller
Image
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
Image
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
Edmund Waller
Image
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller
Image
That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
Edmund Waller
Image
While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.
Edmund Waller
Previous
Next