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Quotes from Prince Lucifer — Alfred Austin

1835–1913 England

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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)

Who once has doubted never quite believes.

Prince Lucifer (1887)

Who once believed will never wholly doubt.

Prince Lucifer (1887)

Omit death's certain sharpness, life would lack
The salt that lends it savour.

Prince Lucifer (1887)

Death is master of lord and clown.
Close the coffin and hammer it down.

Prince Lucifer (1887)

Let Will but set its appetite on war,
And Reason will promptly invent offence,
And furnish blood with arguments.

Prince Lucifer (1887)

O thou sophist, Man!
Reason by reason proved unreasonable
Continues reasoning still! Confronted close,
What is this reason? Like the peacock's tail,
Just useful for a flourish, nothing more;
And when 'tis down, the world goes on the same.

Prince Lucifer (1887)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Austin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.