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 Sappho

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

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.— filed under Gossip
The Sky. The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.— filed under Singers
Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!— filed under Song
Sweetest mother, I can weave no more to-day, For thoughts of him come thronging, Him for whom my heart is longing- For I know not where my weary fingers stray.— filed under Thought
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