Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Company

Men

Mind

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

Discrepancies

Reputation

Writing

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

Eye

Gay

Laughing

Books that have become classics – books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal – always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Age

Book

Half

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

Dream

Sleep

Twilight

Civilization is the lamb’s skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Civilization

Inspirational

Skins

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Clouds

Fire

Sunset

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

Eye

Night

Wings

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Care

Communication

Dialect

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

Generations

Shadow

Voice

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Age

Art

Banking

Beauty

Bones

Book

Care

Children

Civilization

Clouds

Coins

Communication

Company

Cutting

Dark

Death Penalty

Dialect

Discrepancies

Dream

Dust

Dying

Eye

Failure

Fall

Father

Fear

Fire

Garden

Gay

Generations

Generosity

Giving

Gold

Half

Here And There

Humorous

Hypocrisy

Imagination

Inspirational

Intolerance

Joy

Laughing

Laurels

Leafs

Life

Light

Love

Masters

Men

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Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

Books that have become classics – books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal – always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

Civilization is the lamb’s skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven That from the East glad message brings. Night is a stealthy, evil Raven, Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

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