Nymphs Quotes

35 quotes by 28 authors

• You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and,… — Henry David Thoreau
• Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis… — Marcel Proust
• Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph. — Darren Criss
• No man of sense in the whole world believes in devils any more than he does in mermaids, vampires, gorgons, hydras, naiads, dryads, nymphs, fairies,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a… — Christopher McDougall
• And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good… — Lord Byron
• The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. — John Milton
• So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll… — Rex Hunt
• "You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an… — Umberto Eco
• They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness:… — Samuel Johnson
• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton
• Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood or field: Live… — Hartley Coleridge
• Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as… — D. H. Lawrence
• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. — Iris Murdoch
• Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left… — Seamus Heaney
• Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade,… — William Shakespeare
• But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty… — William Shakespeare
• Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Wrote These Nymphs Quotes

28 authors contributed a total of 35 Nymphs Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 5 Nymphs Quotes by Rick Riordan
• 3 Nymphs Quotes by William Shakespeare
• 2 Nymphs Quotes by John Milton
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Horace
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Christopher McDougall
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Lord Byron
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Hartley Coleridge
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Seamus Heaney
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Nymphs Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Carl Jung
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Gena Showalter
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Kurt Cobain
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Brandon Mull
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Marcel Proust
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Darren Criss
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Rex Hunt
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Umberto Eco
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• 1 Nymphs Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Nymphs Quote by D. H. Lawrence