Famous Quotes / Thomas Hood
11 Quotations by Thomas Hood
- 1. A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
- 2. A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
- 3. But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!
- 4. But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
- 5. Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
- 6. I don't set up for being a cosmopolite, which to any mind signifies being polite to every country ex ...
- 7. My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
- 8. No sun - no moon! No morn - no noon -
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- 9. Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
- 10. That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he s ...
- 11. There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.