Quote by Michael Oakeshott

“I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let…

— Victor Hugo

“… the straight brows fell low over the over the clear, deep-set, earnest eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent enough to penetrate…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Justin had a few freckles. A few on his face. On his nose and his cheeks. They were one of the things that Bradley…

— Todd Young

“Brown and Dilke walked with me and back from the Christmas pantomime. I had not a dispute but a disquisition, with Dilke on various…

— John Keats

“And his brow was lofty with thought, and his eye wild with care; and, in the few furrows upon his cheek I read the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The silvery aura from the window fell across his face, lighting a translucent, pale fire in his gray eyes. She could identify no telltale…

— Laura Kinsale

“No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my eyes were…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone…

— H.G. Wells

“He stalked into the room, leaned his long rifle against the mantelpiece and spread out his hands to the fire. He was clad from…

— Zane Grey

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Alas!’ he writes, ‘I am morbid, And have put a purple colour about my brow. All men seem eating and drinking the “Joy of…

— Austin Osman Spare

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins