Top 380 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Blest hour! It was a luxury – to be!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

352. “What a scream of agony by torture lengthened out that lute sent forth!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

353. “The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

354. “The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God’s wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

355. “In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock – the priceless gems and gold – is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

356. “Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

357. “That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

358. “For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

359. “Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

360. “Moral obligation is to me so very strong a Stimulant, that in 9 cases out of ten it acts as a Narcotic. The Blow that should rouse, stuns me.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

361. “The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

362. “Mr. Lyell’s system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

363. “When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still – So perform both my master’s and mistress’s will.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

364. “We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

365. “Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

366. “Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

367. “The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

368. “As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

369. “Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

370. “We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

371. “The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

372. “Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

373. “A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

374. “Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart – the moral nature – was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

375. “An undevout poet is an impossibility.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

376. “The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

377. “Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

378. “We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

379. “Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

380. “Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

381. “For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

382. “We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

383. “Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

384. “I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

385. “A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

386. “Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

387. “Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

388. “The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

389. “If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

390. “Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

391. “Why aren’t more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren’t within everybody’s reach.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

392. “Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

393. “I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

394. “Rage is essentially vulgar.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

395. “The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

396. “We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

397. “Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

398. “Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge