Austere Quotes

47 quotes by 43 authors

Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively inventionâ€”these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and… — Peter Ho Davies
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy. — Riccardo Muti
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities… — Eric Temple Bell
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most… — G. H. Hardy
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved… — Benito Mussolini
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a… — Thornton Willis
The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and… — John Burroughs
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to… — James A. Michener
Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the… — Charles Baudelaire
I'm not an austere person. — Paul Farmer
I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to… — John Mahoney
Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'Iâ€™m… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners… — Madame de Stael
In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which… — Havelock Ellis
As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please… — Jerry Saltz
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget… — Arlen Specter
I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the… — P.G. Wodehouse
She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save… — Cormac McCarthy
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his… — Nikos Kazantzakis

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