"I am waylaid by beauty." — Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I am waylaid by beauty."

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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160 Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay has 160 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned,…
I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep,…
Life is a quest and love a quarrel
Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass…
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient…
Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death…
Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us…
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

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More Beauty Quotes

This quote is filed under Beauty Quotes, one of 8,501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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