Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

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What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

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A stately pleasure-dome decree.

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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

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Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

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Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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