Cottages Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

“Her despairing mind searches for the thorns on her floral print dress.”

— Akash Mandal

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would…

— Robert Greene

“Lady Shaded G by Stewart Stafford This thorned rose is a perfumed pox, Rumours dog her as contagion itself; Breeding cherubs with batons sinister,…

— Stewart Stafford

“Memories of her, however, would remain with him. Everywhere he’d look, she would be there, as if she were a hundred women, all shadow…

— Karen Ranney

“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“did she know the inexpressible charm of modesty, how irresistibly it enthralls the heart of man, how firmly it charms him to the throne…

— Matthew Lewis

Before I found Minerva, I'd passed nights with more than my share of women." Thorne groaned. Don't. Just don't. "I've passed time with duchesses…

— Tessa Dare

For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a…

— Edith Wharton

'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And…

— A. E. Housman

She is a prude in her own defence ... under the specious mask of propriety, she conceals the decay of her worn-out charms.

— Anonymous

“As to her rank, she should be at the very least a princess, seeing that she is my lady and my queen. Her beauty…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.”

— Thomm Quackenbush