Edmund Spenser Quotes About Pride

Quotes about: Pride

• Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.

  Edmund Spenser

  Love, Pride, Rose

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

• So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Pride, Rose

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

• How many great ones may remember'd be,
  Which in their days most famously did flourish,
  Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see,
  But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish,
  Because the living cared not to cherish
  No gentle wits, through pride or covetize,
  Which might their names forever memorize!

  Edmund Spenser

  Pride, Names, Forever

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