Top 200 William Cowper Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Blest be the art that can immortalize.”

— William Cowper

202. “Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.”

— William Cowper

203. “In indolent vacuity of thought.”

— William Cowper

204. “Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.”

— William Cowper

205. “The beggarly last doit.”

— William Cowper

206. “Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.”

— William Cowper

207. “An epigram is but a feeble thing – With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.”

— William Cowper

208. “Lights of the world, and stars of human race.”

— William Cowper

209. “Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.”

— William Cowper

210. “Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.”

— William Cowper

211. “Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.”

— William Cowper

212. “The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.”

— William Cowper

213. “Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.”

— William Cowper

214. “Man on the dubious waves of error toss’d.”

— William Cowper

215. “His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.”

— William Cowper

216. “A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.”

— William Cowper

217. “When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?”

— William Cowper

218. “He that runs may read.”

— William Cowper

219. “Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.”

— William Cowper

220. “Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.”

— William Cowper

221. “Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.”

— William Cowper

222. “But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex’d.”

— William Cowper

223. “We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.”

— William Cowper

224. “O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!”

— William Cowper

225. “Ages elapsed ere Homer’s lamp appear’d, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask’d ages more.”

— William Cowper

226. “It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st.”

— William Cowper

227. “Great offices will have great talents.”

— William Cowper

228. “Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.”

— William Cowper

229. “Religion, richest favor of the skies.”

— William Cowper

230. “A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship’s finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.”

— William Cowper

231. “The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.”

— William Cowper

232. “Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.”

— William Cowper