Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet Adela Florence Nicolson.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Violet Nicolson, was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope, however she became known as Violet Nicolson. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author.
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give.
I shall go the way of the open sea,
To the lands I knew before you came,
And the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me
The memory of your name.