Window Panes Quotes

• There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

  T. S. Eliot

  Faces

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Tea, Vision, Indecision

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There will be time to murder and create.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Murder

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Broken, Politics

  Quoted in George Dangerfield, The Strange Death of Liberal England (1936)

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• When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere.

  Alfred Austin

  Baby, Rain, Glory

  Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

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• With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Space, Forever

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1969, Delphi Classics

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• Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?

  Wei Wu Wei

  Half, Wasps, Wide

  "Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1958.

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• The snow has left the cottage top;
  The thatch moss grows in brighter green;
  And eaves in quick succession drop,
  Where grinning icicles have been,
  Pit-patting with a pleasant noise
  In tubs set by the cottage door;
  While duck and geese, with happy joys,
  Plunge in the yard pond brimming over.
  The sun peeps through the window pane:
  Which children mark with laughing eye,
  And in the wet street steal again
  To tell each other spring is night.

  John Clare

  Children, Spring, Eye

  John Clare (1827). “The Shepherd's Calendar: With Village Stories and Other Poems”, p.20

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• A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
  As night descends upon the fabled street:
  A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
  And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
  Here though the world explode, these two survive,
  And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

  Vincent Starrett

  Lonely, Rain, Past

  Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber (1995). “More Books Alive: New Treasures from a Master Literary Detective”, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box

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• Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Wisdom, Truth

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Keep at least one window pane clean to check the weather. Once when I didn't do this I sent the kids off with umbrellas for six weeks straight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Kids, Weather, Six

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• No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.

  Henry Miller

  Heart, Innovation, Laos

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• There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Together, Window, Ran

  Dorothy Parker (1942). “The collected stories of Dorothy Parker”

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• Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  War, Flower, Adversity

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• Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Should, Prose

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• The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Night, Fog

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.

  Charles Lever

  Party, Rain, Book

  Charles Lever (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)”, p.767, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sometimes, Window, Shattering

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• And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hands, Yellow, Tea

  T. S. Eliot (2012). “The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.

  Eminem

  Watches, Lied, Window

  Song: Love the Way You Lie, Album: Recovery, 2010

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• No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Beauty, God, Faith

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (2015). “These are the Sacraments”, p.5, Aeterna Press

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• The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

  John Keats

  Happiness, Stars, Children

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.752, Delphi Classics

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• The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

  Epes Sargent

  Night, White, Snow

  Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.119

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• It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Women, Memorable

  "The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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