Ancient Quote by Nalini Singh

“However," he continued when she remained silent, her throat a knot of emotion, "it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to…

— Nalini Singh

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour…

— Giles Gilbert Scott

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

— Franz Grillparzer

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“To-day the majority of the great men who have swayed men's minds no longer have altars, but they have statues, or their portraits are…

— Gustave Le Bon

“It was a modest, out-of-the-way place in downtown Tucson, the only shrine in America dedicated to the soul of a sinner, reported the historical…

— Elif Shafak

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“My object in The Prince was to show defeated Italy a model of her savior, a man as perfect in the bold acquisition of…

— Michael Ennis

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.

— Mary Renault

“[The photos] all bore the hallmarks of very expensive lighting and artistry, but Godric was projecting variations on the same emotion in every single…

— Hester Browne