Coventry Patmore Quotes

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.

✵ 23. July 1823 – 26. November 1896
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Famous Coventry Patmore Quotes

“The proper study of mankind is woman.”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 77.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“The flower of olden sanctities.”

1867, p. 123.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“Life is not life at all without delight.”

Victory in Defeat, p. 36.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

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Coventry Patmore Quotes

“To have nought
Is to have all things without care or thought!”

Legem Tuam Dilexi, p. 47.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“A woman is a foreign land.”

Book II. Canto IX, II The Foreign Land.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.”

Tired Memory, p. 95.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

“Modern Philosophers, that wisely keep to sandy shallows, like shrimps, for fear of bigger fish.”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 76.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“The enthusiasm for goodness which shows that it is not the habit of the mind.”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Nothing remains with man unless it is insinuated with some delight.”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 74.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Holy indignation is a proof that we should do the same thing ourselves, and easy tears are a certain sign of a hard heart.”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 74.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“As the Word of God is God's image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech."”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 72.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“The cloud that is light to Israel is darkness to Egypt.”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 71.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“Nothingness is capacity, and night the opportunity of light.”

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 68.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

“It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.”

Aurea Dicta XLIV, p. 15.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation.”

Magna Moralia XLIX, p. 201.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“God is the only reality, and we are real only so far as we are in His order, and He is in us.”

Magna Moralia XXII, p. 172.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“The beauty in her lover's eyes
Was admiration of her own.”

Book II, Canto II, III Lais and Lucretia.
The Angel In The House (1854)

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