Brows Quotes

206 quotes by 171 authors

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
When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid. — William H. Gass
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
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
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
The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning. — James Whistler
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
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
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow… — William Shakespeare
For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That… — Alexander Smith
Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes… — William Cowper
To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones.… — Vincent Van Gogh
The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them… — Homer
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He… — Robert Greene
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly… — John Muir
The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss… — John Muir
Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? — Andrew Ryan
With the sweat of your brow. RapÂture can become your city asÂ well. — Andrew Ryan

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