Famous Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotations

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"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship is like a sheltering tree."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry the best words in the best order."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What comes from the heart goes to the heart."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of LoveAnd feed His sacred flame."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; --poetry = the best words in the best order."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Dvärgen ser längre än jätten när han får sitta på jättens axlar."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain,"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I could not know Whether I suffered, or I did:..."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of Life."
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"O! the one Life within us and abroad,"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live:"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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