Hospitality should be accidental, spontaneous, and impulsive, not pre-arranged and calculated.
Alfred Austin Quotes
1835–1913 England
Alfred Austin DL (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896.
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Also known as: Austin, Alfred
77 quotes
Women are more frequently charming than men, because they are less self-conscious.
The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)
Whatever else he may do, a critic reveals and criticises himself.
In Veronica's Garden (1895)
Show me your garden, provided it be your own, and I will tell you what you are like.
The Garden That I Love (1894)
The Garden That I Love (1894)
Public opinion is no more than this,
What people think that other people think.
Prince Lucifer (1887)
Love and naughtiness are always in their teens.
Prince Lucifer (1887)
Lo, where huge London, huger day by day,
O'er six fair counties spreads its hideous sway.
The Golden Age: A Satire (1871)
Death is the looking-glass of life wherein
Each man may scan the aspect of his deeds.
Savonarola (1881)
Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.
Soliloquies in Song (1882)
Lamia's Winter-Quarters (1898)
Your logic may be good,
But dialectics never saved a soul.
Savonarola (1881)
Women love all whom grief and death attaint.
Savonarola (1881)
Who once has doubted never quite believes.
Prince Lucifer (1887)
Who once believed will never wholly doubt.
Prince Lucifer (1887)
Haunts of Ancient Peace (1902)
Never fear to weep;
For tears are summer showers to the soul,
To keep it fresh and green.
Savonarola (1881)
The Poet's Diary (1904)
No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
The Garden That I Love (1894)
Repress your antipathies, cultivate your sympathies.
The Garden That I Love: Second Series (1907)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Austin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.