1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Right and Rightness]
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Alcohol and Alcoholism]
Swans sing before they die — t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Song and Singing]
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Poetry and Poets]
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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Things and Little Things]
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Marriage]
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Architecture]
The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Bible]
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Government]
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Ideas]
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Age and Aging]
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Experience]
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Acting and Actors]
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Motivation]
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Proverbs]
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Quotations]
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it — low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion — and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge – [Parliament]
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