Comeliest Quotes

#1. Before me and beside me sat a row of the comeliest young men, clad in black gowns and wearing on their shoulders long hoods trimmed in white fur. Who and what they were I know not, for I preferred not to learn, lest by chance they should not be so mediaeval as they looked.

Henry James

#2. I know not which I love the most, Nor which the comeliest shows, The timid, bashful violet Or the royal-hearted rose: The pansy in purple dress, The pink with cheek of red, Or the faint, fair heliotrope, who hangs, Like a bashful maid her head.

Phoebe Cary

#3. To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Albert Camus

#4. Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature's beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Jay Samit

#6. There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

John Oliver

#7. The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.

Al Goldstein

#8. Those trees seem to grow every year ...

Peter Alliss

#9. We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

James Weldon Johnson

#10. So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

Ramakrishna

#11. In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.

John McCain

#12. I sometimes wonder if I'm the person I'm supposed to be," Polly said. He voice was quiet. Almost distant. "Or if I'm just filling the only role left over.

Matthew Dicks

#13. People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it's still OK. Really?

Al Roker

#14. To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

James Dickey

#15. Democracy is a brawl settled in advance by counting heads.

David P. Gontar

#16. Lyrically I write based on my past experiences or things I wish to experience. Pain inspires me as does joy.

Adam Anderson