#beauties

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

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

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

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

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

— Ben Jonson

#just #life #may #measures #perfect

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#beauties #catch #ever #fly #forms