Frederick Locker-Lampson Quotes

Frederick Locker-Lampson was an English man of letters, bibliophile and poet.

✵ 29. May 1821 – 20. May 1895
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Famous Frederick Locker-Lampson Quotes

“Lightly I sped when hope was high
And youth beguiled the chase,—
I follow, follow still: But I
Shall never see her face.”

Frederick Locker-Lampson

The Unrealized Ideal; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 195.

“What an arm—what a waist
For an arm!”

Frederick Locker-Lampson

To My Grandmother; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The world's as ugly, ay, as Sin,—
And almost as delightful.”

Frederick Locker-Lampson

The Jester's Plea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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