Fairest Quotes
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The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that
Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the
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More Fairest Quotes
Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 7, line 81.
Yes, sing the song of the orange-tree, With its leaves of velvet green: With its luscious fruit of sunset hue, The fairest that ever were seen; The grape may have its bacchanal verse, To praise the fig we are free; But homage I pay to the queen of all, The glorious orange-tree.
J. K. Hoyt— The Orange-Tree.
The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie: And 'tis a firmer conquest, truly said, To win the heart than overthrow the head.
— Lady Elizabeth Carew, chorus from "Maxiam"
Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joyand treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!
Robert Burns— 1791 'Ae Fond Kiss', stanza 5.
The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.
— 1988 Speech, May.
Avery fine city; the four principal streets are the fairest for breadth, and the finest built that I have ever seen in one city together? In a word,'tis the cleanest and beautifullest, and best built city in Britain, London excepted.
Daniel Defoe— 1724-7 Of Glasgow. A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, letter12.
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
Francis Thompson— 'Daisy' (published1890).
O harmony! thou tenderest nurse of pain,If that thy note's sweet magic e'er can healGriefs which the patient spirit oft may feel,Oh! let me listen to thy songs again;Till memory her fairest tints shall bring;Hope wake with brighter eye, and listening seemWith smiles to think on some delightful dream.
william lisle bowles— Music, from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 - With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan (1855)
The fairest garden in her looks,And in her mind the wisest books.
Abraham Cowley— The Garden, i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
And therewith kest I doun myn eye ageyne,Quhare as I sawe, walking under the tour,Full secretly new cummyn hir to pleyne,The fairest or the freschest yonge floureThat ever I sawe, me thoght, before that houre,For quhich sodayn abate anon astertThe blude of all my body to my hert.
james i of scotland— Line 274
Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief wherein all marvels summèd lie,Of fairest forms and sweetest shapes the store,Most graceful all, yet thought may grace them more.
robert southwell— "Look Home", line 3; p. 49
'Tis the pest Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
john keats— Bk. II, l. 365.
There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid;
But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea
In the heel of the North-East Trade.
— The Long Trail, Stanza 5.
O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
john milton— Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans , I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language… in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians... To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
max müller— Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas (1888)
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
walter scott— Canto IV, stanza 1.
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 4, line 75.
Awake, My fairest, my espous'd, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight!
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 17.
O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces.
— J. G. Percival—Anacreontic, Stanza 2.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears; The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto IV.
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dead Pan, Stanza 39
Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race, Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place; For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year; Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.
john dryden— John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, Book III, line 1405.
Here comes to-day Pallas and Aphrodite, claiming each This meed of fairest.
Alfred Tennyson— Œnone, Stanza 9.
If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
william browne— William Browne, Visions, Chapter V.
Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Samuel Daniel— Samuel Daniel, Delia.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
— Macbeth, Scene VII
fairest Isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures, and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves. 291
john dryden— 1691King Arthur, act 5,'Song of Venus'.
fairest Isle, all isles excelling, Seat of pleasures, and of loves; Venus here will choose her dwelling, And forsake her Cyprian groves.
john dryden— King Arthur (1691), Act II scene v, 'Song of Venus.
