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- These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and… — Lord Chesterfield
- Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. — William Wordsworth
- Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes.… — John Marston
- When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow… — John Dryden
- My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this… — Cathleen Falsani
- Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a… — William Wordsworth
- None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to… — John Dryden
- There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that… — Michel de Montaigne
- True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight… — Alexander Pope
- ..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. — Henry James
- Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand, And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze. — Shakespeare