Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

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I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

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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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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

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The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

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To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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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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Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

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Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

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