A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
THOMAS MOOREIt is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
-
-
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOORE -
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE -
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
THOMAS MOORE -
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
THOMAS MOORE -
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
THOMAS MOORE -
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
THOMAS MOORE -
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
THOMAS MOORE -
Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
THOMAS MOORE -
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
THOMAS MOORE -
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
THOMAS MOORE -
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
THOMAS MOORE -
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORE -
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
THOMAS MOORE -
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
THOMAS MOORE -
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
THOMAS MOORE






