Quote

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
Lawyer
Pastor
Poet
Politician
Songwriter
Translator
Writer
London
England
Very Rev. John Donne
Faces
Seasons
Fall
Summer
Spring
Grace
Autumnal
Seen
Equinox
Beauty
September
Face
Autumn
Age
Hath

More quotes by John Donne

Image
Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.
John Donne
Image
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
John Donne
Image
My love though silly is more brave.
John Donne
Image
My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.
John Donne
Image
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
John Donne
Image
This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
John Donne
Image
Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.
John Donne
Image
we give each other a smile with a future in it
John Donne
Image
If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do.
John Donne
Image
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
John Donne
Image
I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
John Donne
Image
Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed.
John Donne
Image
I shall not live 'till I see God and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.
John Donne
Image
Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.
John Donne
Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne
Image
And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?
John Donne
Image
Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.
John Donne
Image
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.
John Donne
Image
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
John Donne
Image
And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran.
John Donne