“I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The studio was immense and gloomy, the sole light within it proceeding from a stove, around which the three were seated. Although… — James Hain Friswell Copy Share Image
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Some centuries ago they had Raphael and Michael Angelo; now we have Mr. Paul Delaroche, and all because we are progressing. You… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“I remember once, in talking to Mr. Burne-Jones about modern science, his saying to me, ‘the more materialistic science becomes, the more… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is such a comfort to nestle up to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. He is such a… — Opal Whiteley Copy Share Image
“The great and golden rule of art as well as of life, wrote William Blake, is that the more distinct, sharp and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have seen Fuji, the most dainty and graceful of all mountains; and also Kinchinjunga: only Michael Angelo among men could have… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Men seemed to have shrunk in stature before the vastness of the mechanical contrivances they had invented. Michael Angelo, da Vinci, Aretino,… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“He felt that she wanted the soul out of his body and not him. All his strength and energy she drew into… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
