Austere Quotes

47 quotes by 43 authors

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by… — Annie Besant
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the journals of 18th-century… — Geraldine Brooks
In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. — Elinor Wylie
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer,… — Rajneesh
Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real. — Ansel Adams
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't… — Kingsley Amis
Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into… — Carolyn Heilbrun
I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere. — Corbin Bernsen
The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. — Alexander Herzen
The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It… — Gianfranco Ferre
If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an… — Lincoln Ellsworth
The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with… — Israel Kirzner
Do whatever you please, follow your own star; be original if you want to be and donâ€™t if you donâ€™t want to be. Just be… — Constance Spry
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without… — C. Northcote Parkinson
PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. — Ambrose Bierce
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as… — Bertrand Russell
Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. — Frederick Soddy

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