For this is wisdom; to love, to live, to take what fate, or the gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, to kiss the lips and caress the hair, speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow to have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go!
– Laurence Hope
I cannot forget that, just as my life was touching its fullest flower, love came and destroyed it all in a single hour.
– Laurence Hope
I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
– Laurence Hope
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
– Laurence Hope
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
– Laurence Hope
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
– Laurence Hope
Or, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains, holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell.
– Laurence Hope
Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar, where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell?
– Laurence Hope
Strange, weird things that no man may say, things Humanity hides away; secretly done, catch the light of the living day.