Bayard Taylor > Quotes

“I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old”
― Bayard Taylor, The Poems of Bayard Taylor

“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
― Bayard Taylor

“tainted by the heaps of pestilent offal it must sweep away. As Lord Bacon says (in that play falsely attributed to Shakespeare)—"Ay, there's the rub!" If you were to ask me, NOW, what effect the right of suffrage, office, and all the duties of men has had upon the morals of the women of our State, I should be puzzled what”
― Bayard Taylor, Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

“Shelved around us lie the mummied authors.”
― Bayard Taylor

“you say that men are worse than women, as most people do, then of course we improve them by closer political”
― Bayard Taylor, Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home

“förbud.”
― Bayard Joseph Taylor, Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland

“next to the pleasure of seeing the world, comes the pleasure of telling of it”
― Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine; Asia Minor; Sicily; and Spa

“Conventions, that all the champions of our sex feel the same way. Well, since I must come to an end somewhere, let it be here. To quote Lord Bacon again, take my "round, unvarnished tale," and perhaps the world will yet acknowledge that some good has been done by Yours truly,”
― Bayard Taylor, Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home