Quotes by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

"Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on sleep   

"Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on song and singing   

"Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on catholicism   

"How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on celibacy   

"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on sympathy   

This quotation can be viewed in the context of a book

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on things and little things   

"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on tolerance
7 fans of this quote   

"Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on vocabulary   

"Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on wit   

"My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on addiction
3 fans of this quote   

"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on christians and christianity
8 fans of this quote   

"An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on churches   

"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on criticism   

"How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!"

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on dance and dancing   

"An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!"

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on death