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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes (385 quotes)
 | “If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: "The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume II, Collected and Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge" (1836), p. 406, "Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors" |
| “A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: The Friend: A series of essays, in three volumes, to aid in the formation of fixed principles in politics, morals, and religion, with literary amusements interspersed, By S. T. Coleridge, Volume 2 (1818), p. 139 |
| “He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner l. 615 (1798) |
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| “If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: 18 December 1831. - Table Talk (1821-1834) |
| “There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: Part I, l. 48. - Christabel (written 1797-1801, published 1816) |
| Source/Notes: The Death of Wallenstein, Act V, Scene 1 |
| “Aloof with hermit-eye I scan The present works of present man — A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile, Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile!” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: Ode to Tranquility, st. 4 (1801). |
| “All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.” ―Samuel Taylor Coleridge Source/Notes: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 (1836), p. 339, "Omniana" |
| Source/Notes: The Best Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2010 edition), Digireads.com Publishing - ISBN: 9781420936209 |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Born: October 21, 1772
Died: July 25, 1834 (aged 61)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Poet, critic, philosopher
Bio: Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria.
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