Home is the sacred refuge of our life. [ Dryden ]
Death is the port where all may refuge find,
The end of labor, entry into rest;
Death hath the bounds of misery confin'd
Whose sanctuary shrouds affliction best. [ Earl of Stirling ]
There is for adversity but one refuge - the tomb. [ De Segoyer ]
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Politeness has left our manners, to take refuge in our clothes. [ Mme. de Bassanville ]
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Philanthropy is the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow-creatures. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law. [ Pascal ]
The ear is the last resort of chastity: after it is expelled from the heart, it takes refuge there. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]
As the harbor is the refuge of the ship from the tempest, so is friendship the refuge of man in adversity. [ Demophilus ]
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. [ Agathon ]
We live only on debris; instead of despair, we have indifference; love itself is treated as an ancient illusion. Where has the soul of the world taken refuge? [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Here, in the country, my books are my sole occupation: books my sure solace, and refuge from frivolous cares. Books the calmers, as well as the instruction of the mind. [ Mrs. Inchbald ]
If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor. [ Jane Porter ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all - the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. [ Mark Twain's last words, written on a note by his death bed ]
To escape from arrangements that tortured me, my heart sought refuge in the world of ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with the world of realities, from which iron bars excluded me. [ Schiller at his training-school ]
Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do so with safety. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]
The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]