Notable Quotes
Browse quotes by subject | Browse quotes by author


ELLA WHEELER WILCOX QUOTES

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;
All things give way before it, soon or late.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Will"

Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other,
That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "The Way Of It"

I tell you the women who make fervent wives
And sweet tender mothers, had Fate been less fair,
Are the women who might have abandoned their lives
To the madness that springs from and ends in despair.
As the fire on the hearth which sheds brightness around,
Neglected, may level the walls to the ground.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Angel or Demon"

Love is the centre and circumference;
The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key
To joy and sorrow, and the recompense
For all the ills that have been, or may be.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "What Love Is"

Time is the best avenger.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Life Is Too Short"

Love is a spy who is plotting treason,
In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Communism"

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting;
We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Resolve"

Life is a garden forever in flower.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Entre-Acte Reveries"

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more,
Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes,
While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Immortality"

Suspect suspicion, and doubt only doubt.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Deceit"

Life is a Shylock; always it demands
The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure.
Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands;
We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "The Law"

Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin,
As sweet as clover-honey in its cell;
Love is the password whereboy souls get in
To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "What Love Is"

I like the roar of cities. In the mart,
Where busy toilers strive for place and gain,
I seem to read humanity's great heart,
And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "The City"

I hold it true that thoughts are things
Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings,
And that we send them forth to fill
The world with good results--or ill.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Secret Thoughts"

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Optimism"

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But it has trouble enough of its own.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Solitude"

How does Love speak?
In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek,
And in the pallor that succeeds it; by
The quivering lid of an averted eye--
The smile that proves the parent to a sigh
Thus doth Love speak.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Love's Language"

Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse
That brands and burdens; it is life and death.
It is the great law of the universe;
And nothing can exist without its breath.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "What Love Is"

All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Though brave its walls as any in the land,
And its tall turrets lift their heads in grace;
Though skilful and accomplished artists trace
Most beautiful designs on every hand,
And gleaming statues in dim niches stand,
And fountains play in some flow'r-hidden place:
Yet, when from the frowning east a sudden gust
Of adverst fate is blown, or sad rains fall
Day in, day out, against its yielding wall,
Lo! the fair structure crumbles to the dust.
Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe,
Needs friendship's solid masonwork below.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Upon the Sand"

Night was the goddess of satisfaction.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Entre-Acte Reveries"

Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief,
Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul
From height to height, from star to shining star,
Shall climb and claim blest immortality.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Immortality"

Unless our souls had root in soil divine
We could not bear earth's overwhelming strife.
The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine,
Convinces me of everlasting life.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "Pain's Proof"

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted,
I sometimes wonder if we shall not find
That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted,
Our places are assigned.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, "As By Fire"

Browse Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes II

Browse Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes III


SHARE QUOTES WITH FRIENDS!


Life Quotes

Love Quotes

Death Quotes

God Quotes

Wisdom Quotes

Hope Quotes

Success Quotes

Women Quotes

Happiness Quotes

Shakespeare Quotes