J.W. Lord Quotes

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

That low vice, curiosity!

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

Marriage to a very rich woman posed problems.

Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Critics are already made.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.