The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Hafiz

3 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

'Tis impious pleasure to delight in harm, And beauty should be kind, as well as charm. GEO. GRANVILLE (Lord Lansdowne)- To Myra. L. 21. The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round, That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.— filed under Beauty
College. 'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, "Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!"— filed under Fate
Written under a Carving of Cupid Blowing Bladders in the Air. The chemist of love Will this perishing mould, Were it made out of mire, Transmute into gold. и.— filed under Love
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