Thomas Hood Quotes & Sayings

“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.”

“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!”

“Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.”

“There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.”

“Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.”

“There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.”

“To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.”

“A moment's thinking is an hour in words.”

“That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.”

“Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.”