“A lovely lady, garmented in light
From her own beauty.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
The Witch of Atlas http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4696 (1820), st. 5
“I care not for these ladies,
That must be wooed and prayed;
Give me kind Amaryllis,
The wanton country maid.
Nature art disdaineth;
Her beauty is her own.”
I Care Not for These Ladies (1601), reported in Arthur Henry Bullen, More lyrics from the song-books of the Elizabethan Age (1888), p. 48.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "I care not for these ladies,
That must be wooed and prayed;
Give me kind Amaryllis,
The wanton country maid.
Nature…" by Thomas Campion?
Thomas Campion5
English composer, poet and physician 1567–1620Related quotes
Bhartrihari (570) Indian linguist, poet and writer
Nītiśataka 2
Variant translation from K.M. Joglekar:
That woman about whom I constantly meditate has no affection for me; she, however, yearns after another who is attached to someone else; while a certain woman pines away for me. Fie on her, on him, on the God of Love, on that woman, and on myself.
Śatakatraya
Edward Moore (1712–1757) English dramatist and writer
The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
“She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VIII, 50
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VIII
Context: The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.
“I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
In accepting his Nobel Prize, in December 1950; Russell denied that he had contributed anything in particular to literature. Quoted in LIFE, Editorials: "A great mind is still annoying and adorning our age", 26 May 1952
1950s
