Henry Austin Dobson famous quotes

04-23-2025

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Life #Time
Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Men #Meat #Fame
He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Eye #Men #Artist
In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#School #Rose #Coquette
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Beauty #Eye #White
All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Art #Thrones #Coins
All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Running #Race #Peaches
Love comes unseen; we only see it go.
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Unseen
O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance - O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance, "Shall we twirl down the middle?" O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle!
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Dance #Couple #Play
In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.
-- Henry Austin Dobson

#Angel #Men #Wings

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