Top 15 Coventry Patmore Quotes

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish.

Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.

Enough's a surfeit to the soul.

The enthusiasm for goodness which shows that it is not the habit of the mind.

Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight.

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

He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth.

As the Word of God is God's image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech."

The cloud that is light to Israel is darkness to Egypt.

The dull and heavy hate of fools.

Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light.

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.

The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation.