Coventry Quotes

• Life is not life at all without delight.

  Coventry Patmore

  Delight, Life Is

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

  Coventry Patmore

  Desire, Incredibles, Willing

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

  Coventry Patmore

  Love, Hatred, May

  Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1950). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”

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• Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

  Coventry Patmore

  Love You, Soul, Done

  'A Riddle Solved' in 'The Angel in the House' (1854-62) bk. 1, canto 6, prelude 4 (1904 ed.)

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• For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.

  Coventry Patmore

  Lying, Care, Want

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

  Coventry Patmore

  Love, Sweet, Book

  1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 8, prelude 2,'The Revelation'.

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• We did an a cappella version, which I have always wanted to do, of the "Coventry Carol." It's beautiful, and we did it in three part harmony with no accompaniment. We have two a cappella songs that, in my opinion, are just gorgeous.

  Jane Lynch

  Beautiful, Song, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bridges, Cities, Watches

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• Alessandro del Piero reminds me of Robert Rosario when I had him at Coventry.

  Bobby Gould

  England

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• The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value.

  Michael Reeves

  School, Curves, Years

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• Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Blow, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Morning, War, Lying

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• The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Decision, Suffering

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• I was born and bred in Coventry. I played for the club as well, so that's where my liaisons lie.

  Bobby Gould

  Lying, Clubs, Born

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