lost quotes

The woman that deliberates is lost.

-Joseph Addison
  Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.31.

What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninetyand nine in the wilderness, andgoafter that whichislost, until hefind it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke15:4^5.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: thosethatthougavest me Ihave kept, and noneof them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John17:12.

'Father! father! where are you going? O do not walk so fast. Speak, father, speak to your little boy, Or else I shall be lost.'

-William Blake
  Songs of Innocence,'The Little Boy Lost'.

'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all. SeeTennyson 843:34.

- Arthur Hugh Clough
  'Peschiera'.

Ce qu'on donne a'   l'amour est a'   jamais perdu. What one gives in love is forever lost.

- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
  Poe  sies,'L'Isolement'.

We were so clos'd within each other's breasts The rivets were not found that join'd us first. That does not reach us yet: we were so mix'd, As meeting streams, both to ourselves were lost; We were one mass; we could not give or take, But from the same; for he was I, I he!

-John Dryden
  Antony speaking of his friendship with Dollabella.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

- Robert Lee Frost
Quoted in Louis Untermeyer Robert Frost:  A Backward Look (1964).

The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

- Edward Gibbon
^88  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch.3.

But there's no love lost between us.

- Oliver Goldsmith
  She Stoops to Conquer, act 4, sc.1.

You lost yourability for doing things in childhood† It all beganwithyourinability toputonyoursocksand ended by your inability to live.

- Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
  Oblomov, pt.4, ch.2 (translated by David Magarshak).

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed.

- Germaine Greer
  The Female Eunuch,'Soul:  Womanpower'.

What aterrifying reflection it is, by theway, that nearlyall our deep love for women who are not our kindred dependsat any rate, in the first instanceupon their personal appearances. If we lost them, and found them again dreadful to look on, though otherwise they were the very same, should we still love them?

- Sir (Henry) Rider Haggard
  She, ch.26 'What  We Saw', narrator's note.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  The American Notebooks (published1868), ch.5.

When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.1.

Something there had been, something delicate, wild and far away. But it was shut out behind the doors of yesterday, lost beyond the hills.

- Robin pseudonym of IrisGuiver Wilkinson Hyde
  The Godwits Fly, ch.3.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

- Henry James
  'The  Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, Nov. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to eternity, God ha'mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  'The Gentlemen-Rankers'.

So right.OK.We lost.

-John Major
  On election night. In The Guardian, 3 May.

Now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him.

-John Milton
  Of Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.54^6.

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found, Was blind, but now I see.

-John Newton
  Olney Hymns,'Amazing Grace'.

One more such victory, and we are lost!

-Pyrrhus of Epirus
  BC  After defeating the Romans at Asculum. Quoted in Plutarch Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata,184c.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marksnot that you won or lost But how you played the game.

- Grantland Rice
Only the Brave,'Alumnus Football'.

   Was man nicht aufgibt, hat man nie verloren. What is not abandoned is never completely lost.

- Friedrich Schiller
  Maria Stuart, act 2, sc.5.

Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, emptyas paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. 722

- F(rancis) R(eginald) Scott
  Of Canada.'Laurentian Shield'.

The woodland brook he bounding crossed, And laughed, and shouted,'Lost! lost! lost!'

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 3, stanza13.

This rortie wretched city Sair come down frae its auld hiechts The hauf o't smug, complacent, Lost til all pride of race or spirit, The tither wild and rouch as ever In its secret hairt But lost alsweill, the smeddum tane, The man o'independent mind has cap in hand the day Sits on its craggy spine And drees the wind and rain That nourished all its genius Weary wi centuries This empty capital snorts like a great beast Caged in its sleep, dreaming of freedom.

- Sydney Goodsir Smith
  Of Edinburgh.'Kynd Kittock's Land' (Kynd Kittock is a character in the poetry of the16c Scottish poetWilliam Dunbar.) rortie=splendid, smeddum=spirit, drees=endures.

You are all a lost generation.

- Gertrude Stein
Quoted as epigraph in Ernest Hemingway The Sun Also Rises (1926).

Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World.

-John Millington Synge
  Pegeen Mike.The Playboy of theWesternWorld, act 3, closing words.

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 27, l.13^16.

Prompt me,God, But not yet.When I speak Though it be you who speak Through me, something is lost. The meaning is the waiting.

- R(onald) S(tuart) Thomas
  'Kneeling'.

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.

-James Grover Thurber
  Fables for OurTime,'The Courtship of Arthur and Al'.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not being vice.

- Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
Quoted in L Kronenberger The Extraordinary MrWilkes (1973).