Coventry Patmore Quotes

Holy indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart.

The midge's wing beats to and fro
A thousand times ere one can utter "O!"

Good people and religious are the first to say, "He hath a devil" of any one whose way is widely different from and maybe greatly higher than their own.

I saw you take his kiss!" "'Tis true."
"O, modesty!" "'Twas strictly kept:
He thought me asleep; at least, I knew
He thought I thought he thought I slept.

The impurity of ignorance is in none so manifest as in the devout; for they act on their ignorance, and fill themselves and others with miserable scruples and hard thoughts of God, and are as apt to call good evil as other men are to call evil good.