Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by George Darley

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish novelist George Darley.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
George Darley

George Darley (1795–1846) was an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic, and author of mathematical texts. Friends with such literary luminaries as Charles Lamb, Thomas Carlyle, and John Clare, he was considered by some to be on a level with Tennyson in “poetic possibilities” in the 1840s, but in the words of famous literary critic George Saintsbury “he had the marks of a talent that never did what it had it in it to do.”

Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.
Give me, instead of beauty's bust, A tender heart, a loyal mind, Which with temptation I could trust, Yet never linked with error find.
There's many a white hand holds an urn
With lovers' hearts to dust consumed. — © George Darley
There's many a white hand holds an urn With lovers' hearts to dust consumed.
Fool! I mean not That poor-souled piece of heroism, self-slaughter; Oh no! the miserablest day we live There's many a better thing to do than die!
Awake thee, my Lady-Love! Wake thee, and rise! The sun through the bower peeps Into thine eyes.
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