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Joanna Baillie
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“Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) said by 1851 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on her Birthday, line 126; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 902.
“Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And sting the luckless foot that presses them? There are who in the path of social life Do bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun, And sting the soul.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Montfort (1798), Act I, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.
“A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: De Montfort (1798), Act III, scene 2; in A Series of Plays.
“Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) first seen 1836 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Phantom, song (1836); reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 201.
“Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note, Soft moves the dipping oar!”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) said by 1851 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song, Oh, Swiftly glides the Bonnie Boat; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 74.
“The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) first seen 1802 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ethwald (1802), Part II, Act V, scene 3.
“The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) first seen 1812 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Orra (1812), Act III, scene 1, "The Chough and Crow"; in Plays on the Passions, Volume III.
“The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) said by 1851 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn— Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) said by 1851 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.”
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) said by 1851 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source