Richard Temple may refer to:
- Richard Temple (opera singer) (1847–1912) was an English opera singer, actor and stage director
- Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet (1826–1902), British colonial administrator and politician
- Sir Richard Carnac Temple (1850–1931), Nineteenth century writer on India and Burma.
- Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675–1749), British soldier and politician
- Richard Temple, a novel by Patrick O'Brian
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“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)
“Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?
He is a brittle crazie glasse:
Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford
This glorious and transcendent place,
To be a window, through thy grace.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)