Alliances Quote by Fanny Burney Download Open image “it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.” — Fanny Burney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alliances Beauty Folly Has beens Long
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. "Beauty by mistake"- the final phase in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. — Matthew Prior Copy Share Image
“Could beauty be caught and hurt they had done her to death with their sneers in ages and ages past, could beauty be sacrificed… — H.D Copy Share Image
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins; and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to the race… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
the right line of conduct is the same for both sexes, though the manner in which it is pursued, may somewhat vary, and be… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. The” — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution. — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians… — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul. — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I prayed for the first time in a very long time today. I explained to God that unless he wanted the Marxist-Islamic alliance and… — Anders Behring Breivik Copy Share Image
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image