Thomas Moore's Quotes

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

True change takes place in the imagination.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.