Loss Quotes - Page 39

• Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Voice, Sound

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “From "The Princess"”

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• Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

  Mark Antony

  Ambition, Dogs Of War, Play

  "Fictional character: Mark Anthony". "Mark Anthony’s Speech at Funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare", www.cbsenext.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

  Abraham Coles

  Sweet, Pulse, Sound

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• See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

  Ken Kesey

  Eye, Ears, Hearing Loss

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• Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Play, Ears

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Mistress, Sound, Delight

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

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• Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Men, Thinking, Secret

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• Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  People, Perfect, Impossible

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• But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Distance, Singing

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• How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

  Philip Massinger

  Voice, Good Woman, Sound

  Philip Massinger, John Ferriar (1813). “The city madam. The guardian. A very woman. The bashful lover. The old law”, p.541

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• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Long, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2125, Delphi Classics

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• Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Ears, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4418, Delphi Classics

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• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Lakes, Water

  "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

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• Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

  Elizabeth I

  Ears, Bigs, Hearing Loss

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• We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.380, Princeton University Press

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• The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Sound, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.128, Penguin

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• Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

  Shelley Winters

  Movie, Mean, Player

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• I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

  Karl Kraus

  Doe, Want, Wells

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.118, University of Illinois Press

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• The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Secret, Purpose, Answers

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  Anthony Holden

  Anecdotes, Literature, May

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• One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

  Gertrude Stein

  Said, Heard, Audience

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.310, Univ of California Press

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• When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cutting, Village, Littles

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Policeman's Lot”

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• There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone.

  John Chancellor

  President, Ears, Monkeys

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• Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Clouds, Echoes

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: prose and verse”, p.59

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• But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

  William Cowper

  Ears, Animated, Humans

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.121

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