The Recognition of Śakuntalā Quotes

“Ah, my wishes become hopes.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Misfortune finds the weak spot.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“A thought is as vivid as an act, to a lover.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“A bee may be born in a hole in a tree, but she likes the honey of the lotus.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Did the great Creator first draw her in a masterpiece,   (9) And then touch life into his art? Or did he make her in his mind alone, Drawing on beauty’s every part? No—considering her singular perfection And her maker’s true omnipotence, I suppose her some quite unique creation In femininity’s treasure house.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“To be a king, is to be a disappointed man.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“A good man never lets grief get the upper hand. The mountains are calm even in a tempest.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“The mind of age is like a lamp Whose oil is running thin; One moment it is shining bright, Then darkness closes in.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Grief must be shared to be endured”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“It is just such women, selfish, sweet, false, that entice fools.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“May kingship benefit the land,
And wisdom grow in scholars’ band;
May Shiva see my faith on earth
And make me free of all rebirth.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“May lily-dotted lakes delight your eye; May shade-trees bid the heat of noonday cease; May soft winds blow the lotus-pollen nigh; May all your path be pleasantness and peace.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“I treated her with scorn and loathing ever; Now o’er her pictured charms my heart will burst: A traveller I, who scorned the mighty river, And seeks in the mirage to quench his thirst.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“I cannot taste the sweet, and cannot leave it.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“akuntala, we have watered the trees that blossom in the summer-time. Now let’s sprinkle those whose flowering-time is past. That will be a better deed, because we shall not be working for a reward.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Why fight with an enemy who flees way at the mere twang of our bow”
― Kālidāsa, Shakuntala

“The tears would choke you, sweet, in vain; My soul with victory is fed, Because I see your face again— No jewels, but the lips are red.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“They show their little buds of teeth In peals of causeless laughter; They hide their trustful heads beneath Your heart. And stumbling after Come sweet, unmeaning sounds that sing To you. The father warms And loves the very dirt they bring Upon their little forms.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“A graceful arch of brows above great eyes;
Lips bathed in darting, smiling light that flies
Reflected from white teeth; a mouth as red
As red karkandhu-fruit; love’s brightness shed
O’er all her face in bursts of liquid charm—
The picture speaks, with living beauty warm.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Move on, you cutpurse, move on.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“You can’t give up a lowdown trade That your ancestors began; A butcher butchers things, and yet He’s the tenderest-hearted man.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Be slow to love, but yet more slow With secret mate; With those whose hearts we do not know, Love turns to hate.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“A stream that eats away the bank, Grows foul, and undermines the tree. So you would stain your honour, while You plunge me into misery.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Do leaguèd powers of sin conspire
To balk religion’s pure desire?
Has wrong been done to beasts that roam
Contented round the hermits’ home?
Do plants no longer bud and flower,
To warn me of abuse of power?
These doubts and more assail my mind,
But leave me puzzled, lost, and blind.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Hermits? Accompanied by women? From Kanva?”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“A girl is held in trust, another’s treasure; To arms of love my child to-day is given; And now I feel a calm and sacred pleasure; I have restored the pledge that came from heaven.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“akuntala must go to-day; I miss her now at heart; I dare not speak a loving word Or choking tears will start. My eyes are dim with anxious thought; Love strikes me to the life: And yet I strove for pious peace— I have no child, no wife. What must a father feel, when come The pangs of parting from his child at home?”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“akuntala must go to-day; I miss her now at heart; I dare not speak a loving word Or choking tears will start. My eyes are dim with anxious thought; Love strikes me to the life: And yet I strove for pious peace— I have no child, no wife.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“My dear, this is no ordinary somebody. It is the great sage Durvasas, the irascible. See how he strides away!”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala

“Because your heart, by loving fancies blinded, Has scorned a guest in pious life grown old, Your lover shall forget you though reminded, Or think of you as of a story told.”
― Kālidāsa, The Recognition of Sakuntala