Skip to content

Lord of myself, accountable to none,
But to my conscience, and my God alone.

— John Oldham Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Another quote →

Source and credibility

Wikiquote does not flag this quote as disputed or misattributed.

Source: Satire addressed to a Friend, line 36
Work: Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, 1922
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

More by John Oldham

Wile some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
To each affronting sot I meet, the word
Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
And pointed satire runs him through and through.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

All John Oldham quotes →

Topics

Spirituality

More quotes by John Oldham

Curse on the man who business first designed,
And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate,
By every breach in that fair lodging made,
Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

And should you visit now the seats of bliss,
You need not wear another form but this.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Ah, dearer than my soul…
Dearer than light, or life, or fame.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

While some no other cause for life can give
But a dull habitude to live.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

All John Oldham quotes →

You may also like

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

Attribution

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