All Quotes by Thomas Moore
“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.”
“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”
“Faintly as tolls the evening chime,Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.”
“A Persian's heaven is easily made:'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.”
“Oft, in the stilly night,The cheerful hearts now broken!”
“I feel like one,And all but he departed!”
“What though youth gave love and roses,Age still leaves us friends and wine.”
“No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.”
“All that's bright must fade,— But to be lost when sweetest.”
“Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!Jehovah has triumphed—his people are free.”
“Oh, call it by some better name,For friendship sounds too cold.”
“Come, come," said Tom's father, "at shall I take?”
“Go where glory waits thee,Oh! still remember me!”
“Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.”
“And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls,Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.”
“A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”
“The harp that once through Tara's hallsNow feel that pulse no more.”
“Life is a waste of wearisome hoursIs always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
“Rich and rare were the gems she wore,And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.”
“Believe me, if all those endearing young charmsWould entwine itself verdantly still.”
“No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,The same look which she turn'd when he rose.”
“But there's nothing half so sweet in lifeAs love's young dream.”
“The tribute most high to a head that is royal,Is love from a heart that loves liberty too.”
“Eyes of unholy blue.”
“'Tis the last rose of Summer,Are faded and gone.”
“The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone,And his wild harp slung behind him.”
“And the best of all waysIs to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!”
“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”
“No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound usAll earth forgot, and all heaven around us.”
“The light that liesHas been my heart's undoing.”
“My only booksAnd folly's all they've taught me.”
“Love, nursed among pleasures, is faithless as they,But the love born of Sorrow, like Sorrow, is true.”
“Ask a woman's advice, and, whate'er she advise, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.”
“Accurst is the march of that gloryWhich treads o'er the hearts of the free.”
“Man for his gloryIs told in her eyes.”
“This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,The past, the future,—two eternities!”
“But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fastTo some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.”
“There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream,To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.”
“Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit,But the trail of the serpent is over them all.”
“Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,Grow pure by being purely shone upon.”
“One morn a Peri at the gateOf Eden stood disconsolate.”
“Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,One minute of heaven is worth them all.”
“Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.”
“But the trail of the serpent is over them all.”
“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”
“Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour,And love me, it was sure to die.”
“Paradise itself were dimAnd joyless, if not shared with him!”
“It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.”
“Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,But turn to ashes on the lips.”
“Oh for a tongue to curse the slaveAnd blasts them in their hour of might!”
“Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.”
“As sunshine broken in the rill,Though turned astray, is sunshine still.”
“Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter!Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.”
“Alas! how light a cause may moveWhen heaven was all tranquillity.”
“Love on through all ills, and love on till they die.”
“And oh if there be an Elysium on earth,It is this, it is this!”
“When Time who steals our years awayAnd half our joys renew.”
“Weep on! and as thy sorrows flow,I 'll taste the luxury of woe.”
“Where bastard Freedom wavesThe fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”
“How shall we rank thee upon glory's page,Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage?”
“I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'dA heart that was humble might hope for it here."”
“Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,The rapids are near, and the daylight's past.”
“The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.”
“Like a young eagle who has lent his plumeWhich rank corruption destines for their heart.”
“There was a little man, and he had a little soul;And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!”
“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”
“Who ranThrough each mode of the lyre, and was master of all.”
“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
“Good at a fight, but better at a play;Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.”
“Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.”
“Fly not yet; 't is just the hourAnd maids who love the moon.”
“Oh stay! oh stay!To break its links so soon.”
“When did morning ever break,And find such beaming eyes awake?”
“Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”
“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowersIs always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
“There is not in the wide world a valley so sweetAs that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.”
“Oh, weep for the hourThe lord of the valley with false vows came.”
“Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my sideIn the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?”
“No, the heart that has truly lov'd never forgets,The same look which she turn'd when he rose.”
“The moon looks"The brook can see no moon but this."”
“And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,The maiden herself will steal after it soon.”
“'T is sweet to think that where'er we roveWe've but to make love to the lips we are near.”
“'T is believ'd that this harp which I wake now for theeWas a siren of old who sung under the sea.”
“To live with them is far less sweetThan to remember thee.”
“When true hearts lie wither'dThis bleak world alone?”
“Thus, when the lamp that lightedAs that light which Heaven sheds.”
“I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart,I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.”
“To live and die in scenes like this,With some we 've left behind us.”
“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free,First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”
“Those evening bells! those evening bells!When last I heard their soothing chime!”
“As half in shade and half in sunBe all that e'er shall meet thy glances!”
“If I speak to thee in friendship's name,Thou say'st I speak too boldly.”
“A friendship that like love is warm;A love like friendship, steady.”
“The bird let loose in Eastern skies,Nor shadow dims her way.”
“This world is all a fleeting show,There's nothing true but Heaven.”
“As down in the sunless retreats of the oceanThe hope of my spirit turns trembling to Thee.”
“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
“When twilight dews are falling softHas lighted me to thee, love.”
“I give thee all,—I can no more,That I can bring to thee.”
“Who has not felt how sadly sweetWhen far o'er sea or land we roam?”
“To Greece we give our shining blades.”
“When thus the heart is in a veinCan touch it with peculiar power.”
“If thou would'st have me sing and playAnd bring one freshly strung.”
“To sigh, yet feel no pain;Then throw it idly by.”
“Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are!Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.”
“Humility, that low, sweet rootFrom which all heavenly virtues shoot.”
“Came but for friendship, and took away love.”
“All that's bright must fade,--”
“From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”