Quotes from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If you chance to live in a town where the authorities cannot rest until they have destroyed every precious tree within their blighting reach, you will be especially charmed by the beauty of the streets of Portsmouth.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
If my best wines mislike thy taste, And my best service win thy frown, Then tarry not, I bid thee haste; There's many another Inn in town.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Or light or dark, or short or tall, she sets a spring to snare them all; all's one to her--above her fan, she'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich