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Mould Quotes

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.911, Delphi Classics

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Michel de Montaigne (1856). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.244

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Charles Darwin “Charles Darwin: An Anthology”, Transaction Publishers

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Edmund Waller (1722). “Poems ... Fifth edition, with several additions never before printed”, p.139

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

Mary Wollstonecraft (2014). “Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.217, Restless Books

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!

Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.307, Chapman and Hall