Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,269 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Hafez
39 quotes
“Boy, let yon liquid ruby flow, And bid thy pensive heart be glad, Whate’er the frowning zealots say: Tell them, their Eden cannot show A stream so clear as Rocnabad, A bow’r so sweet as Mosellay.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Persian Song of Hafiz" (tr. William Jones, 1771)
“However old, incapable, And heart-sick I may be, The moment I recall your face My youth's restored to me.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round, That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 143 (tr. Herman Bicknell, 1875)
“Sweet are the garden, the rose, and wine, but they would not be sweet without the company of my darling.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (tr. Anon., 1875); quoted with a slight change in Ann Braybrooks (ed.) Love: A Book of Quotations (2012) p. 71
“What necessity for a sword to slay the lover, when a glance can deprive him of half his life!”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (tr. Anon., 1875); quoted with a slight change in Love: A Book of Quotations (2012) p. 71
“'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, "Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Persian Poetry", Letters and Social Aims (1876) p. 221
“It is a crime to seek to raise but self, Before all other men to praise but self, The pupil of the eye a lesson gives, Be all submitted to thy gaze but self.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What holds in peace this two-fold world, let this two-fold sentence show Amity to every friend, courtesy to every foe.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn meekness from the shell in ocean’s bed And pearls on one who wounds thy head bestow.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have shut my eye like a falcon to all the world Since my (inward) eye is open to thy beauteous countenance.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though many a rose in this garden is born No mortal who culls one escapes from the thorn.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thy curl is ever drawing the heart silently Who hath power to speak (quarrel) with Thy heart-vanishing curl.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Opportunity flies, O brother, As the cloud that quick doth pass; Oh make use of it! life is precious If we let it go,—alas!”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Slight me not zealot, go thou hence ashamed For naught is slight that has by God been framed.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Come! hear of those who have felt sorrow’s touch Their words are few, but what they mean is much.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What serves thy armour ’gainst Fate’s arrows fierce? What serves thy shield if Destiny transpierce? Though steel and iron may thy ramparts plate When comes the mandate, Death shall burst thy gate.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like are, if void of purity, the k‘aba and the idle-fane The house that has not chastity can in its walls no good contain.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The meshes of the net are strong but God withholds His grace from none, Not otherwise could man prevail o’er Satan the stone-pelted one.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wash from the dross of life thy hands as the Path’s men of old And, winning love’s alchemic power, transmute thyself to gold.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How well said the aged farmer to his son, O light of my eyes, thou wilt not reap save that which thou hast sown.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Daughters of turbulent mind awaking their mothers’ ire, And sons who of froward mood wish ill to their sire, I see; Sherbets of sugar and rose the world to the fool supplies, But naught save his own heart’s blood the food of the wise I see; Galled by the pack-saddle’s weight the Arab’s proud steed grows old, Yet always the ass’s neck encircled with gold I see.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Breeze which at the morning blowest, Fly, if faith and truth thou knowest, Say, to my Beloved one turning; He who with thy love is burning Dying sighs where he is hidden ‘Life without thee is forbidden.’”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heart, should the flood of death life’s fabric sweep away, Noah shall steer the ark o’er billows dark, despair not. Though perilous the stage, though out of sight the goal, Whithersoe’er we wend, there is an end, despair not. If love evades our grasp, and rivals press their suit, God, Lord of every change, surveys the range, despair not.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O partridge, bird of graceful gait, say whether wouldst thou shape thy way? Be not so bold, for well we know how the religious cat can pray.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If by the Holy Spirit’s grace the gift again be won The works which the Messias wrought by others may be done.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“None see nor hear the malice of the sky Each ear is deaf and blind is every eye Oft those who moon and sun their pillow thought Have later bricks and clay too gladly sought.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aloud I say it and with heart of glee, ‘Love’s slave am I and from both worlds am free.’ Can I, the bird of sacred gardens tell, Into this net of chance how first I fell?”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enjoy! ’twixt lip and mouth the bounds as nothing are If humbled, care not; as the rose be gay, Life’s honours which pass soon away, as nothing are.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Regard opportunity. For when uproar fell upon the world, Hafiz struck at the cup and through grief took the corner of retirement.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Profit by companionship; this two-doored house (i.e., life) forsaken, No pathway that can thither lead in future time is taken.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reckon as plunder the path of profligacy. For this track Like the path to the hidden treasure is not evident to every one.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Shah no other than thyself aspiring Hafiz craves; Oh! were he in thy doorway’s dust one of thy common slaves.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If it is thy desire that the Beloved should not break the covenant, Keep thy end of the thread that He may keep his end.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be misery thy portion here, O Sage, or be it bliss Refer it not to other men: ’tis God who orders this.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“High birth may be a pearl of lustre, but let thine effort be To rise by deeds. Distinct is greatness from birth and pedigree.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spend well thy time; drink wine within the bower For when a week is gone, the flower is not; Snatch, snatch the hour that glads the heart so well For the pearl always in the shell is not.”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sir William Jones, A Grammar of the Persian Language (1771) · Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages (1772)”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Herman Bicknell, Hafiz of Shiraz: Selections from his Poems, Translated from the Persian (1875)”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anonymous, A Century of Ghazels, or, A Hundred Odes, Selected and Translated from the Diwan of Hafiz (1875)”
Hafez (1325–1389) said by 1389 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source