Quotes by Christina Rossetti

• Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
• I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.
• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
• My heart is like a singing bird.
• I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
• And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.
• I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.
• Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.
• Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
• Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth.
• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
• Obedience is the fruit of faith.
• She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
• Silence is more musical than any song.
• Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.