Top 25 Belles Quotes
#1. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride,
Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide:
If to her share some female errors fall,
Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Alexander Pope
#2. A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land.
I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.
Deborah Smith
#3. I go for all the belles, except the wedding kind.
Elvis Presley
#4. What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?
Henry David Thoreau
#5. Only through religion can logic develop into philosophy, only from this source stems that which makes philosophy more than science. And without religion we will have only novels, or the triviality today called belles lettres instead of an eternally rich and infinite poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#6. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Lewis Hyde
#7. Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
Jane Jacobs
#8. You have to understand that women in the South, women of Southern blood, just don't partake in scandalous adventures--- and when we do, it's in a discreet manner. We have reputations to consider, after all." ~ Blake O'Hara Heart in THE SASSY BELLES
Beth Albright
#9. Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#10. Vampires didn't faint like Southern belles at the sight of blood.
Flynn Meaney
#11. I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#12. I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.
Jon Postel
#13. I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself.
Chris Cleave
#14. Narrative Tension is primarily about witholding information.
Ian McEwan
#15. I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.
Ashley Rickards
#16. The fragility of our era is this, too: we don't believe that there is a chance for redemption; for a hand to raise you up; for an embrace to save you, forgive you, pick you up, flood you with infinite, patient, indulgent love; to put you back on your feet. We need mercy. We
Pope Francis
#17. The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Henry David Thoreau
#18. When bad things happen to men we say it's terrible, but when bad things happen to women we say that's just a cultural practice, says Lou de Baca, U.S. Ambassador at Large, Office to Combat and Monitor Human Trafficking.
Nita Belles
#19. Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.
Marv Levy
#21. If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.
Joyce Meyer
#22. I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.
Martha Graham
#24. One legislator accused me of having a 19th century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an 18th century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law abiding citizens should be one of government's primary concerns.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#25. The solution to our energy needs must go through a show of respect for nature, not, once again, a policy that does violence to our hills.
George Horace Lorimer
