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Idle Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
- Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the…
- Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
More Idle Quotes
- A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. — Walter Bagehot
- Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and… — Renata Adler
- I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses… — Jorge Luis Borges
- I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle… — Jo Brand
- Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings… — Nick Cave
- One monster there is in the world, the idle man. — Thomas Carlyle
- To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment;… — Benjamin Haydon
- A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the… — Osbert Sitwell
- Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For… — William Penn
- Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don't fill your thoughts,… — Wumen Huikai
- True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. — William Shakespeare