Round Him Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as from a rock;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
— Joseph Conrad
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Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves,-not dead, but gone before,- He gathers round him.
— Samuel Rogers
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Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
— Samuel Johnson
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Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of…
— George Gershwin
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For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's…
— Heinrich Heine
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A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst…
— Joseph Addison
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...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his…
— Homer
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And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all…
— H.G. Wells
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The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air…
— George Orwell
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She turned to Skulduggery and held out her arms. “Come here, you.†He tilted his head. “My hugs are for special occasions only.†“Hug me. 
— Derek Landy
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Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came…
— Cassandra Clare
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The President has apples on the table And barefoot servants round him, who adjust The curtains to a metaphysicalt And the banners of the nationflutter,…
— Wallace Stevens
Who Wrote These Round Him Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Round Him Quotes as follows: