absent quotes

Since Man with that inconstancy was born, To love the absent, and the present scorn. Why do we deck, why do we dress For such a short-liv'd happiness?

- Brendan Francis Behan
  Lycidus,'To Alexis in  Answer to his Poem against Fruition,' stanza 3.

The L watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 31:49.

Les absents ont toujours tort. The absent are always in the wrong.

- Philippe originally Ne  ricault Destouches
  L'Obstacle impre v u, act1, sc.6.

  If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone, You or I were alone; Then my Lucasta might I crave Pity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave.

- Richard Lovelace
  Lucasta,'To Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas'.

En toi je vis, o  u' que tu sois absente; En moi je meurs, o  u' que je sois pre  sent. Tant loin sois-tu, toujours tu es pre  sente; Pour pre'  s que sois, encore suis-je absent. I live in you, wherever you are, when you are absent; I die in myself wherever I am. No matter how faraway you are, you are always present; And no matter how near you are, I am always absent.

- Maurice Sce'  ve
  De  lie, no.144.

I would like to be there, were it but to see how the cat Scottish Metrical Psalms jumps.Oneknowsnothingoftheworld,if youareabsent from it so long as I have been.

- Sir Walter Scott
  Journal,7 Oct, expressing frustration and wonder at the machinations of London bureaucracy which prevented him accessing government papers for his Life of Napoleon.

To thinkofone's absent love is verysweet; but it becomes monotonous† I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

- Anthony Trollope
  The Small House at Allington, ch.4.