Samuel Laman Blanchard Quotes
Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.
What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?
It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.
How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!
Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?
When the error is universal, it is supposed to end. The adoption of the foundling establishes its consanguinity.
It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.
Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".
