Skip to content

Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.

— Henry Austin Dobson Old-World Idylls and Other Verses (1883)

Another quote →

More quotes by Henry Austin Dobson

Fame is a food that dead men eat,—
I have no stomach for such meat.

Fame Is a Food That Dead Men Eat (1906)

Love comes unseen,—we only see it go.

Vignettes in Rhyme and Vers de Societé (1873)

Carry his body hence,—
Kings must have slaves;
Kings climb to eminence
Over men's graves:
So this man's eye is dim;—
Throw the earth over him.

Vignettes in Rhyme and Vers de Societé (1873)

In merest prudence men should teach […]
That science ranks as monstrous things
Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings—
E'en angels' wings!—are fictions.

At the Sign of the Lyre (1885)

All passes. ART alone
Enduring stays to us:
The Bust out-lasts the throne,—
The Coin, Tiberius.

Old-World Idylls and Other Verses (1883)

All Henry Austin Dobson quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Austin Dobson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.