Quotes - Bailey
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth isâit is her shadow.
Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. -Pearl Bailey.
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
The heart is its own Fate.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
I have a heart with room for every joy.
My favoured temple is in an humble heart.
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]