Coventry Patmore: Quotes about men

Coventry Patmore was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on men.

Coventry Patmore: 66 quotes1 like

“Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapen'd paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,
Which, spent with due, respective thrift,
Had made brutes men, and men divine.”

Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto III, III Unthrift.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,
They read with joy, then shut the book.”

Coventry Patmore

Book I, Canto VIII, II The Revelation.
The Angel In The House (1854)

“If you try to simplify or pare off the superfluous from the minds and speech of most men, you will find that nothing is left. There is no simplicity in them, for there is no truth; truth and simplicity being, as Aquinas says, the same thing.”

Coventry Patmore

Aurea Dicta VI, p. 4.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)