“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”
Laurence Hope India's Love Lyrics
Less Than the Dust
Indian Love Lyrics (aka Garden of Kama) (1901)
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Less than the weed that grows beside thy door”
Laurence Hope India's Love Lyrics
Less Than the Dust
Indian Love Lyrics (aka Garden of Kama) (1901)
“When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.”
Horace Walpole (1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
George Chapman An Humorous Day's Mirth
An Humorous Day's Mirth; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mary Howitt (1799–1888) English poet, and author
The poor Man's , reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Evil news fly faster still than good.”
Thomas Kyd book The Spanish Tragedy
Act I, sc. iii
The Spanish Tragedy (1592)
“I have no remedy for fear; there grows
No herb of help to heal a coward heart.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Queen Mary Stuart as portrayed in Bothwell. Act II, Sc. 13.
Bothwell : A Tragedy (1874)
“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow,
A herb most bruised is woman.”
Source: Medea (431 BC), Lines 230–231 in Gilbert Murray's translation ( p. 15 https://archive.org/stream/medeatranslatedi00euriuoft#page/15/mode/1up)
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Welsh journalist and explorer
Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909)
“A weed is just a flower growing in the wrong place”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: Perfect