Fretted Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd… — John Dryden
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire. — William Shakespeare
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul… — Helen Keller
Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic. — Susan Faludi
I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could… — Will Ferguson
The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined… — Robert Genn
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage.… — Saint Francis de Sales
When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests. — Maria Mitchell
The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical… — William Shakespeare
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human… — H.G. Wells
Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's… — Kathryn Stockett
After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases. — Khaled Hosseini
My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the… — Henry David Thoreau
As mankind grew obsessed with its hours, the sorrow of lost time became a permanent hole in the human heart. People fretted over missed chances,… — Mitch Albom
Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she… — Catherynne M. Valente
No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted. — Olive Schreiner

Who Wrote These Fretted Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Fretted Quotes as follows: