Top 40 Quotes by Richard Jefferies

About Richard Jefferies

These are some quotes by English author Richard Jefferies Writer, who lived between November 6, 1848 and August 14, 1887.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.

Richard Jefferies

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

Richard Jefferies

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

Richard Jefferies

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

Richard Jefferies

Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.

Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.

Richard Jefferies

The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of 'St. Gaarge' conquering the dragon.

Richard Jefferies

Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?

Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?

Richard Jefferies

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

Richard Jefferies

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.

The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.

Richard Jefferies

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

Richard Jefferies

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