Vapours Quotes
12 quotes by 9 authors
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It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the…
— John Owen
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Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy…
— Edmond Halley
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
— Edmund Waller
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The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out…
— Kit Williams
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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
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The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have…
— Lynne Truss
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There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
— Georgette Heyer
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The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him…
— Baron d'Holbach
Who Wrote These Vapours Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 12 Vapours Quotes as follows: