Ears Quote by Walter Scott

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent…

— Henry James

“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining…

— George Eliot

“For years her emotions lay behind a wall she had constructed: the yearnings, the desires, the disappointment, and the pain.”

— Lacy Danes

She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were…

— Anonymous

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they…

— Christina Rossetti

“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly…

— Baroness Orczy

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love…

— Homer

“Around her shone the nameless charms unmarked by her alone—the light of Love, the purity of Grace, the mind, the Music breathing from her…

— Carolyn Miller

She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“That was during the time of her lost happiness, when his love had built round her a protective wall, which for a brief period…

— Anna Kavan

“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker…

— Margaret Mahy

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could…

— Marcel Proust