Adjectives Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Don Basilio was a severe, forbidden-looking man who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed. "Yes, I knew you would; but it is quite true, all the same." "Too…

— Oscar Wilde

The Brawny man is a prime example of a guy with a cool-looking mustache.

— Brooklyn Decker

“He had long observed with disapprobation and contempt the superstition which governed Madrid's inhabitants. His good sense had pointed out to him the artifices…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“He was a man of between sixty and seventy. From a little distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist. His slightly bald…

— Agatha Christie

Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.

— Anonymous

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

He...boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like…

— Gail Carriger

Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single…

— Rich Cohen

“He was a weedy-looking young man with straw-coloured hair and rather long legs, who had failed twice for the Foreign Office. He sometimes wore…

— Anthony Powell

“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself, why the…

— Agatha Christie

Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He…

— Walter Isaacson