"Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg,……" — Robert Herrick
"Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg."
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Robert Herrick
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78 Quotes by Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick has 78 quotes on this site.
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
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Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers…
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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift…
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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips…
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
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My soul I'll pour into thee.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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More Dainty Quotes
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Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with…
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We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands…
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers…
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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made…
— Diane Kruger
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Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important…
— Louise Bourgeois
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There's times to be dainty and times to be a pig.
— Doug Stanhope
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So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their…
— Unknown Author
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Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water…
— Anthony Trollope
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Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals,…
— Charles Dickens
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Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of…
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Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
— Francis Beaumont
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