#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

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

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

— Ben Jonson

#just #life #may #measures #perfect

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#communicate #concealed #critic #discover #dwell

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. ↗

— Theocritus

#eye #faults #lover

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#between #characters #delicate #dragon #girl

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ↗

— Roman Payne

#ancient-greeks #balance #beauties #cycles #europe

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#charming #country #day #diversity #every

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

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

— Alexander Pope

#charms #eyes #may #merit #pretty