“Love is a pearl of purest hue,
But stormy waves are round it;
And dearly may a woman rue,
The hour that she found it.”
The Improvisatrice (1824)
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.”
Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843), Act i, scene iii.
Variant: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Source: Les Misérables
“She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.”
On his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, Chapter 1 (Childhood).
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
“For many a day, and many a dreadful night,
Incessant lab'ring round the stormy cape.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1002.
“She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.”
Source: The Marriage Plot
“Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.”
An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).