(30 quotes found)
“Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know”
William Shakespeare
“Breast and bosoms I have known Of varied shapes and sizes From poignant disappointments To jubilant surprises”
Waldo Pierce
“But they whose guilt within their bosoms lie Imagine every eye beholds their blame”
“The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.”
William Blake
“Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wicked thoughts.”
Moliere
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run.”
John Keats
“A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.”
Martin Delany
“A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.”
Clive Bell
“And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.”
Stevie Smith
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