5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Character

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on character

7. And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.

20. The last speech [Iago's soliloquy], the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful!

85. Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, Hath a toothless mastiff bitch.

122. The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every...minutest fiber.

128. Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.