“There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.”
Fated to be Free (1875)
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Famous Jean Ingelow Quotes
"Divided", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“If one cannot have success, the next most agreeable thing is failure.”
Chapter 3, John Jerome, His Thoughts and Ways (1886)
"Afterthought", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
"Songs of Seven. Seven times Six", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.”
"The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Jean Ingelow Quotes about life
“Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire
Our only greatness is that we aspire.”
"A Snow Mountain", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Preface to the American edition of Fated to be Free (1875)
Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 6, p. 74.
"Work", line 1, p. 54.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
"A Story of Doom", Book VII, p. 191.
A Story of Doom (1867)
Jean Ingelow Quotes about love
"Scholar and Carpenter", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: p>The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.He waits for us, while, houseless things,
We beat about with bruised wings
On the dark floods and water-springs,
The ruined world, the desolate sea;
With open windows from the prime
All night, all day, He waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.</p
Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 1, p. 15.
"Sleep (A Woman Speaks)", line 1, p. 98.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
Jean Ingelow Quotes
“All night, all day, He waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.”
"Scholar and Carpenter", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Context: p>The while He sits whose name is Love,
And waits, as Noah did, for the dove,
To wit if she would fly to him.He waits for us, while, houseless things,
We beat about with bruised wings
On the dark floods and water-springs,
The ruined world, the desolate sea;
With open windows from the prime
All night, all day, He waits sublime,
Until the fulness of the time
Decreed from His eternity.</p
“But two are walking apart forever
And wave their hands for a mute farewell.”
"Divided", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!”
"The Mariner's Cave", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 9, p. 108.
Source: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 21, p. 356.
“Let me be only sure; for sooth to tell
The sorest dole is doubt.”
"Honours—Part II", line 83, p. 21.
Poems (1863)
Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 19, p. 224.
Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 16, p. 198.
Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 11, p. 134.
“It is a comely fashion to be glad,—
Joy is the grace we say to God.”
"Songs with Preludes: Dominion", p. 269.
A Story of Doom (1867)
“A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two.”
Source: John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886), Ch. 12, p. 207.
“A man's world, but woman bides her time.”
Source: John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886), Ch. 7, p. 107.
Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 25, p. 315.
“I'm like a good clock, I neither gain nor lose. I can strike, too.”
Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 19, p. 229.
Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 9, p. 113.
"The Monitions of the Unseen", p. 31.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
Source: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 30, p. 560.
Source: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 18, p. 278.
"Work", line 12, p. 54.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
"Gladys and Her Island", p. 238.
A Story of Doom (1867)
