I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“ Autumn Days Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating;… — Will Carleton Copy Share Image
Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I understand I'm supposed to be feminine and dainty, but I'm not. There are two sides to the coin. People are more… — Kesha Copy Share Image
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is,… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures. — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty… — Pope Leo XII Copy Share Image
A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or… — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
So, before leading my troops into battle, we would get drunk and drugged up, sacrifice a local teenager, drink their blood, then… — General Butt Naked Copy Share Image
I have a daughter who's four, who's dainty and princess-esque. I still get to dress her like my little accessory. I think… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
It is not elegant to gnaw Indian corn. The kernels should be scored with a knife, scraped off into the plate, and… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
