William Allingham Quotes

“Is idleness indeed so black a crime?What are the Busy doing, half their time?”

“I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.”

“I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.”

“Autumn's the mellow time.”

“Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.”

“Waiting is one of the great arts.”

“I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.”

“The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.”

“When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.”

“Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.”