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.
32 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
(Character of Charles II.). Vol. I. Ch. II. To see her abdicate this majesty to play at precedence with her next door neighbor.— filed under Abdication
I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running o'er the plain, He tumbles on his nose: But quickly jumping up again, Like lightning on he goes!— filed under Animals-Dog
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.— filed under Art
Remember that the most beautiful things in world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for the world are the most useless; peacocks and instance.— filed under Beauty
Holmes. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. VI. When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries, And to Versailles, although to go so far is A thing not quite consistent with your ease, And-but the mass of objects quite a bar is To my describing what the traveller sees. You who have ever been to Paris, know; And you who have not been to Paris-go!— filed under Cities-Dresden
Raleigh. Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.— filed under Confession
Farewell, my dear country, so savage and hoar! I shall range on thy heath-covered Sinnburgh no more; For lo! I am snatched to a far distant shore, To wish for my country in vain.— filed under Country, Love Of
Once on a time, the wight Stupidity For his throne trembled, When he discovered in the brains of men Something like thoughts assembled, And so he searched for a plausible plan- One of validity, - And racked his brains, if rack his brains he can None having, or a very few! At last he hit upon a way For putting to rout, And driving out From our dull clay These same intruders new- This Sense, these Thoughts, these Speculative ills- What could he do? He introduced quadrilles.— filed under Dancing
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.— filed under Duty
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight.— filed under Enjoyment
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.— filed under Aristophanes
October. October's foliage yellows with his cold.— filed under Months-October
In rattling showers dark November's rain, From every stormy cloud, descends amain.— filed under Months-November
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.— filed under Mountains
Sculpture. Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. There should not be a single ornament put upon great civic buildings, without some intellectual intention. น.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
The Lamp of Memory. It was stated, *** that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:-the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
I would have, then, our ordinary dwellinghouses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: *** with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
The Lamp of Memory. No person who is not a great sculptor or painter, can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
Sculpture. Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
Sculpture. Therefore when we build, let us think that we build (public edifices) forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone, let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us."— filed under Occupations-Alchemy
If it is the love of that which your work represents-if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you-if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you-if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.— filed under Occupations-Painting
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.— filed under Occupations-Painting
The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.— filed under Occupations-Shoemaking
People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.— filed under Peace
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.— filed under Pride
Pieces. First Flower Piece. Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;-but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.— filed under Religion
I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.— filed under Rivers-Rhine
Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.— filed under Shakespeare
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.— filed under Singers
Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,-more lofty, -more shaggy they seemed. The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest, And hung on the ether's invisible breast; Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright, - Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night.— filed under Sunset