Brahmins Quote by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

“Both possessing remarkably rich southern drawls, words loitered on their tongues like drunken drifters when they spoke.”

— Jeffrey Stepakoff

“Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speaks…

— Sappho

“Lancelot and Guenever were sitting at the solar window. An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from Tennyson and…

— T.H. White

“One day, all those who love in the society of Auld Lang Syne shall meet again. In the New City of the Burning Heart,…

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom…

— Walter Savage Landor

“He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a…

— Sarah Bakewell

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner As Phaethon would whip you to the west, And bring in cloudy night…

— William Shakespeare

“Hush, hush! Good People! and good night!" said Gandalf, who came last. "Valleys have ears, and some elves have over marry tongues. Good night!”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“One of Their Gods When one of them passed through the forum of Seleucia just as night began to fall, young, tall, perfect in…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

“The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever." Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles." That comed--as you call…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The soul is a divider of hearts, a subtle harp its love forsakes the drunkards and debauchees love forgets nothing, but nothing somewhere in…

— Jeremy Limn