Complexion Quotes
82 quotes by 73 authors
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After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for…
— Marshall Brickman
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Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If women were by nature what they make themselves by art; if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,…
— Joseph Conrad
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who…
— NeNe Leakes
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The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
— Thomas Paine
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White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
— William S. Paley
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Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking…
— William Shakespeare
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If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will…
— Sena Jeter Naslund
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and…
— Jane Austen
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What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?…
— George MacDonald
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Patch was dressed in the usual: black shirt, black jeans and a thin silver necklace that flashed against his dark complexion. His sleeves were pushed…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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It’s a sun lamp. I thought you might be tired of your pasty-pale complexion. (Chris) Christopher, I happen to be a Viking in the middle…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.
— Anita Diament
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She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the…
— Charles Dickens
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