The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. Votes: 21
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. Votes: 5
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. Votes: 5
But I have seen thee And thou art enough. Votes: 4
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. Votes: 3
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. Votes: 3
Honesty needs no pains to set itself off. Votes: 3
I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester. Votes: 3
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. Votes: 3
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. Votes: 1
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound. Votes: 0
Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours? Votes: 0
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. Votes: 0
I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to. Votes: 0
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Votes: 0
If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter. Votes: 0
Now, in my opinion, a woman has no business with Power-Power admits no equal, and dismisses friendship for flattery. Besides, it keeps the men at a distance, and that is not always what we wish. Votes: 0
Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies. Votes: 0