Robert Southey
3 quotes.
Quotes by Robert Southey
- A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.
- A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks.
- If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.