Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My lusts they do me leave, My fancies all be fled, And tract of time begins to weave Grey hairs upon my head.
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For age with stealing steps Hath clawed me with his crutch
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The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.
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My hand and pen are not in plight, As they have been of yore.
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As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.
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I loathe that I did love, In youth that I thought sweet
-- Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden
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All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.
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A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
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I love to see old women. I love wrinkles. I love gray hair.
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He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.
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I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
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Love is more cruel than lust.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
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