Nymphs Quotes
35 quotes by 28 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.
— Darren Criss
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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
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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
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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
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
— John Milton
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
— Iris Murdoch
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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
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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
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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
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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
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