Round Quotes - page 2

But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware. (Robert Frost)
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . . View quote
Henry James
For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts? View quote
Joshua Reynolds
A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on. View quote
Cordell Hull
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. View quote
Joseph Addison
She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round. View quote
David Lodge
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. (Kenneth Grahame)
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn. View quote
William Shenstone
When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green And every goose a swan, lad And every lass a queen Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. View quote
Charles Kingsley
I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked. View quote
Bill Hicks
Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round. View quote
Lewis Carroll
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
I prayfor fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. View quote
William Butler Yeats
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. View quote
Rumi
Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. View quote
Richard Dawkins
And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet whence he blew Soul-animating strains,alas too few. (William Wordsworth)
Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound. View quote
William Wordsworth
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. View quote
William Wordsworth
Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. View quote
William Wordsworth
The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. View quote
William Wordsworth