Beauties Quotes
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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
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More Beauties Quotes
Or where the pictures for the page atone, And Quarles is saved by beauties not his own.
Alexander Pope— 1742 The Dunciad, bk.1, l.139-40.
For the mere purpose of entertainment and the excitement of wonder, a display of brilliant electric experiments, even when performed in the most promiscuous and confused order, never fail to afford ample gratification to the curiosity. The studious observer, however, whose business is to inquire into the true beauties of the science, requires the most judicious arrangement of the phenomena that can possibly be devised, in order to facilitate his acquaintance with them, and with the laws by which they are displayed and associated with each other.
william sturgeon— William Sturgeon (1842). Lectures on electricity. London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper. p. 123-124.
How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain: But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best; He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Isaac Watts— Moral Songs, A Summer Evening.
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
joseph addison— 1712 In The Spectator, no.291, 2 Feb.
Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.
joseph addison— 1713 Cato, act1, sc.4, l.134-5.
But if the envious nymphs shall fearTheir beauties will be scorn'd,And hire the ruder winds to tearThat face which you adorn'd;Then rage and foam amain, that weTheir malice may despise;And from your froth we soon shall seeA second Venus rise.
thomas carew— "On Sight Of A Gentlewoman's Face In The Water".
Ask me no more where Jove bestows,When June is past, the fading rose;For in your beauties, orient deepThese flow'rs, as in their causes, steep.
thomas carew— "Song".
"One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
andy goldsworthy— He's got the whole world in his hands, The Telegraph (24 March 2007)
His hallelujahs open the heavens. He utters the word "Wonderful," as if all their trumpets spoke together. And then, when he comes to earth, to make love amidst nymphs and shepherds (for the beauties of all religions found room within his breast), his strains drop milk and honey, and his love is the youthfulness of the Golden Age.
george frideric handel— Leigh Hunt Table-Talk (1851) pp. 147-8.
The maid who modestly concealsHer beauties, while she hides, reveals;Give but a glimpse, and fancy drawsWhate’er the Grecian Venus was.
edward moore— The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.
A certain ambiguity of rhythm is one of the beauties of a poem
— The Anatomy of Poetry, Marjoie Boulton, Routledge & Kegan, London 1953
Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north.
joseph addison— Act I, scene iv.
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shews none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.
joseph addison— No. 215 (6 November 1711).
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
joseph addison— No. 291 (2 February 1712).
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caress More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties give me a cigar!
lord byron— The Island (1823), Canto II, Stanza 19
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
rachel carson— The Sense of Wonder (1965)
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
john donne— The Anniversary, stanza 1.
To dwell on a heath without studying its meanings was like wedding a foreigner without learning his tongue. The subtle beauties of the heath were lost to Eustacia; she only caught its vapours. An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
thomas hardy— Bk. I, ch. 7.
In images of horror, and in a certain terrible greatness, our author comes far behind Chaucer. Whether they were not suited to the genius or the temper of Lydgate, I do not determine; but it is certain that, though they naturally seemed to present themselves, he has almost generally chose to avoid them: yet is there frequently a stiller kind of majesty both in his thought and expression, which makes one of his principal beauties.
john lydgate— Thomas Gray "Some Remarks on the Poems of Lydgate", in The Works of Thomas Gray (1858) vol. 5, pp. 308-9.
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple
pythagoras— "Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
The northern ocean is beautiful , ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing to him who delights in numbers, spurning alike the wild irrationality of life and baffling complexity of nature’s laws.
— J. L. Synge, in Mathematical Reports of the Academy of Science, Volume 7,p.111
To copy beauties, forfeits all pretence To fame to copy faults, is want of sense.
Charles Churchill— Charles Churchill, The Rosciad (1761), line 457.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
voltaire— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Style.
Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's oily shade, Safe through the wet on clinking pattens tread, Let Persian dames the umbrella's ribs display, To guard their beauties from the sunny ray; Or sweating slaves support the shady load, When eastern monarchs show their state abroad; Britain in winter only knows its aid, To guard from chilling showers the walking maid.
john gay— John Gay, Trivia, Book I, line 209.
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Island, Canto II, Stanza 19.
Not by empty protestations against the pleasures of the world, and cynical denunciations of its enjoyments, but by our superiority to its perishing greatness, to its fading beauties, and its impotent antagonisms, are we to express our redemption from its power.
— George. C. Lorimer, p. 621. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; ... Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties - give me a cigar!
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Island.
At the head of Flora's dance; Simple Snow-drop, then in thee All thy sister-train I see; Every brilliant bud that blows, From the blue-bell to the rose; All the beauties that appear, On the bosom of the Year, All that wreathe the locks of Spring, Summer's ardent breath perfume, Or on the lap of Autumn bloom, All to thee their tribute bring.
james montgomery— James Montgomery, Snow-Drop.
Those virgin lilies, all the night Bathing their beauties in the lake, That they may rise more fresh and bright, When their beloved sun's awake.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Paradise and the Peri.
