Henry Austin Dobson Quotes

• ¿Dices que el tiempo se va? ¡Ah, no! Por desgracia, el tiempo se queda, nos vamos.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• O, Love's but a dance,
  Where Time plays the fiddle!
  See the couples advance -
  O, Love's but a dance!
  A whisper, a glance,
  "Shall we twirl down the middle?"
  O, Love's but a dance,
  Where Time plays the fiddle!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Dance, Couple, Play

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• All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Art, Thrones, Coins

  'Ars Victrix'

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• El amor viene sin ser visto; sólo lo vemos partir.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Short Love, Unseen, Seen And Unseen

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• Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Comida, Hombres, Cocina

  'Fame is a Food' (1906)

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• All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus - More had not Alcinous!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Running, Race, Peaches

  Henry Austin Dobson, “A Garden Song”

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• He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Eye, Artist, Men

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• En la Escuela de Coquetas Madam Rose es una erudita,-¡Oh, pescan con todas las redes En la Escuela de Coquetas! Cuando olvida su broche es para mostrar su nuevo collar; ¡En la Escuela de Coquetas Madam Rose es una erudita!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  School, Rose, Coquette

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• Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
  All things, in short, to which belong
  The charm, the grace that Time
  makes strong,
  All these I prize, but (entre nous)
  Old friends are best!

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Strong, Book, Wine

  Henry Austin Dobson, “To Richard Watson Gilder”

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• In merest prudence men should teach . . .
  That science ranks as monstrous things
  Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--
  E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Angel, Hombres, Alas

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• The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Beauty, Eye, White

  'The Ladies of St James's' (1883)

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