Nymphs Quotes

• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  Iris Murdoch

  Women, Home, Two

  Iris Murdoch (1990). “The Message to the Planet”, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books

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• We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nature, Want Something, Air

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Nature, Color

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001). “Nature, Addresses and Lectures”, p.17, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
  Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
  Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
  The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Air, Glowing

  'The Sensitive Plant' (1820) pt. 1, l. 29

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• Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Hamlet And Ophelia, Sin

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 89

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• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

  John Milton

  Echoes, Unseen, Shells

  'Comus' (1637) l. 230

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• Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Kissing, Giving

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Liberty, Mountain

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 31

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• Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Holiday, Color

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.10, Harvard University Press

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• They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Believe, Tree, Perception

  "Renoir: My Father". Book by Jean Renoir, p. 137, 2001.

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• Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Apology, Thinking, Names

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.780, e-artnow

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• Full fathom five thy father lies

  William Shakespeare

  Father, Lying, Pearls

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Order, Lovely

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• Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live ye in peace, and long may ye be free To follow your good minds.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Names, Long, Mind

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother”, p.270

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• That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

  Ovid

  Echoes, Babbling

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• O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Perfect, Crystals

  William Shakespeare, Trevor R. Griffiths (1996). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.159, Cambridge University Press

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• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

  Rex Hunt

  Lakes, Air, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.

  Seamus Heaney

  Sweet, Mind, Too Much

  Seamus Heaney (2010). “Opened Ground”, Faber & Faber

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• The river Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Rain, Cities, Rivers

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Change, Tombstone, Sea

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.219

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• Full fathom five thy father lies;
  Of his bones are coral made;
  Those are pearls that were his eyes;
  Nothing of him that doth fade,
  But doth suffer a sea-change
  Into something rich and strange.
  Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
  Ding-dong.
  Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Father, Eye

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394

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• What can books of men that wive
  In a dragon-guarded land,
  Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
  Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
  Do, but awake a hope to live...?

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Hope, Art

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• In Koln, a town of monks and bones,
  And pavement fang'd with murderous stones,
  And rags and hags, and hideous wenches,
  I counted two-and-seventy stenches,
  All well defined, and several stinks!
  Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
  The River Rhine, it is well known,
  Doth wash your city of Cologne;
  But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
  Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Cities, Two, Rivers

  1828 'Cologne', first published in Friendship's Offering (1834), as 'Lightheartedness in Rhyme', no.4.

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• The peerless cup afloat
  Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
  Swims bearing high above her head.

  Robert Browning

  Lakes, Swim, Lilies

  Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.191

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• It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

  John Milton

  Brother, Steel, Chastity

  John Milton, “Comus”

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