The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin. — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. — John Webster Copy Share Image
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender — Anne Boleyn Copy Share Image
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How have I been able to live so long outside Nature without identifying myself with it? Everything lives, moves, everything corresponds; the… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
But I got a great deal else from the experience. I learned to pitch a tent and sleep beneath the stars. For… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
