J.W. Lord Quotes

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

I am surrounded here by parsons and methodists, but as you will see, not infested with the mania.

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.

To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

Lord of himself; that heritage of woe!

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

Talking jaw is better than going to war.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

I have been driven demented in my career.

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.

I knew this girl named Tropicana, She's always juicin'. Producing cash for a sexual task. She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat... You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete.

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

But there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.