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James Sheridan Knowles Quotes

Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

James Sheridan Knowles
House, Knows, Domesticity
James Sheridan Knowles (1823). “Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.23

Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!

James Sheridan Knowles
Marriage, Brother, Children
James Sheridan Knowles (1859). “The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles: The love chase. Woman's wit. The maid of Mariendorpt. Love. John of Procida. Old maids. The rose of Arragon. The secretary”, p.255

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

James Sheridan Knowles
Life, Silence, Sound
James Sheridan Knowles (1832). “Virginius: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.67

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

James Sheridan Knowles
Heart, Wedlock, Ifs
James Sheridan Knowles (1856). “Dramatic Works: The love-chase. Woman's wit; or, Love's disguises. The maid of Mariendorpt. Love. John of Procida; or, The bridals of Messina. Old maids. The rose of Arragon. The secretary”, p.176

What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

James Sheridan Knowles
Sports, Fire, Air
James Sheridan Knowles (1837). “The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts”

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

James Sheridan Knowles
Weed, Heart, Errors
James Sheridan KNOWLES, Robert Shelton MACKENZIE (1838). “The Dramatic Works of J. S. K. With a Memoir by R. Shelton Mackenzie”

The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not proportion to Eternity; Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean! There is the time of man--his proper time, Looking at which this life is but a gust, A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!

James Sheridan Knowles
Ocean, Men, Race
James Sheridan Knowles (1838). “The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts”, p.107

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

James Sheridan Knowles
Steps, Neighbor, Extremes
James Sheridan Knowles (1848). “The Hunchback: A Play in Five Acts. With the Author's Latest Corrections”, p.17

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

James Sheridan Knowles
Running, Kings, Men
James Sheridan Knowles (1856). “Dramatic Works: Caius Gracchus. Virginius. William Tell. Alfred the Great; or, The patriot king. The hunchback. The wife; a tale of Mantua. The beggar of Bethnal Green. The daughter”, p.305

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