Books Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer

“people talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.

— Frederick Rolfe

“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you should like…

— George Etherege

“...[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...”

— William Morris

“After all, it is sometimes rather enjoyable to feel insulted, is it not? For the person knows that no one has insulted him, and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Silly, spiteful hoof-heads are everywhere. Even I have enemies, but the people who matter are those who hug you when you’re sad, and make…

— K.J. Colt

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call…

— Hillary Clinton

“When a novel lacks the indefinable, unmistakable thing we call beauty, one looks in it for sound delineation of character, or humour of situation,…

— George Orwell

“there was less of the peevish temper of a child which frets and teases on purpose to be soothed, and more of the self-absorbed…

— Emily Bronte