Brow Quotes
178 Brow quotes by 148 unique authors
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This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.
— Frederick Leboyer
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting…
— Thomas Carlyle
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My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
— Robert Browning
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Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow.
— John Keats
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When I know I have a huge shoot, I’ll just go into the sauna and steam out my face. Product-wise, I don’t really do much…
— Chanel Iman
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If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?
— Pietro Metastasio
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Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But…
— Robert Montgomery
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Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when…
— Robert Montgomery
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Eternity has no gray hairs. The flowers fade, the heart withers, people grow old and die, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages,…
— Reginald Heber
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Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures…
— Washington Irving
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I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a…
— Epictetus
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My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as…
— Josephine Baker
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business;…
— Charlotte Bronte
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"The word which God has written on the brow of every person," wrote Victor Hugo, "is Hope." As long as we have hope no situation…
— Wilferd Peterson
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What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of…
— William Morris Hunt
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I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also…
— Ken Follett
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When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.
— William H. Gass
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The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every…
— Peter York
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What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard…
— Robert Breault
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Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
— Josh Billings
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The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.
— James Whistler
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A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno…
— Pietro Metastasio
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