Quotes by Southey, Robert

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbea >>

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes >>

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of tho >>

Quotations about Deception

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. >>

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. >>

I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was >>

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Southey, Robert