Robert Southey Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Magic In The World, Circles

• Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Like You, Chickens

  The Curse of Kehama motto (1810). Geoffrey Chaucer wrote something similar in "The Parson's Tale" (ca. 1387): "And ofte tyme swich cursynge wrongfully retorneth agayn to hym that curseth, as a bryd that retorneth agayn to his owene nest."

• Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Character, Eye

  Robert Southey (1872). “The Doctor, &c”, p.157

• Ye who dwell at home,
  Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

  Robert Southey

  Home, Terror, Knows

  Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.227

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