"It is a comely fashion to be glad;……" — Jean Ingelow

More Comely Quotes

This quote is filed under Comely Quotes, one of 16 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an… — William Rothenstein
• For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth… — Plato
• Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly. — John Lyly
• A comely olde man as busie as a bee. — John Lyly
• Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her… — Pat Conroy
• Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief… — Joseph Hall
• A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree. — John Bunyan
• The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The… — Mark Twain
• My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to… — Vladimir Nabokov
• When we come to worship the God and Father of us all and to partake of the sacrament symbolizing the… — Jeffrey R. Holland
• ...for all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal... — Herman Melville
• Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love — Soren Kierkegaard

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