Lineaments Quotes
17 quotes by 14 authors
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See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do…
— William Shakespeare
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If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves…
— Auguste Rodin
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books; I trow that…
— Mathew Roydon
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There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the…
— Kenny Smith
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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified…
— William Blake
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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
— William Blake
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If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
— William Butler Yeats
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A sweet attractive kinde of grace, A full assurance given by lookes, Continuall comfort in a face The lineaments of Gospell bookes.
— Mathew Roydon
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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look…
— William Butler Yeats
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A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like…
— Lord Byron
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She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the…
— Walter Pater
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what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid…
— William S. Burroughs
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Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What…
— Rick Perlstein
Who Wrote These Lineaments Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 17 Lineaments Quotes as follows: