#beauties

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

#beauties #contain #fiction #globe #great

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. ↗

— James Wyatt

#beauties #country #forgotten #gothic #long

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#consider #everything #flaws #makes #making

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should. ↗

— William H. Macy

#getting #just #older #older women #out

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#charms #eyes #may #merit #pretty

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#just #life #may #measures #perfect

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beauties #eating #favorite #friends #great

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age? ↗

— Robert Gould Shaw

#age #beauties #could #describing #fine

Elaine's lows were low, but her highs were...well her highs were magic that transformed mere earth, air, and water into the breath of life. ↗

— Mark Adam Kaplan

#kaplan #beauty