Comely Quotes

#1. Tall and fair, with blue-green eyes, sandy hair streaked by the sun, and a lean and comely body, Gerris Drinkwater had a swagger to him, a confidence bordering on arrogance.

George R R Martin

#2. Luck always favors the comely.

Richard Schickel

#3. Wasn't choosy about breasts. Large ones, pert ones. Dark nipples or fair. Alabaster or freckled. So far as he was concerned, the most comely pair of breasts in the world was always the pair he was currently tasting.

Tessa Dare

#4. She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!

Stephen King

#5. It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

Jean Ingelow

#6. A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.

John Bunyan

#7. Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.

David Foster Wallace

#8. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.

Andrea Zuvich

#11. I am sorie God made me so comely.

Nicholas Udall

#12. Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit.

Plutarch

#13. A comely olde man as busie as a bee.

John Lyly

#14. Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
'T is haste
Makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

Robert Herrick

#15. A woman with cut hair is a filthy spectacle, and much like a monsterit being natural and comely to women to nourish their hair, which even God and nature have given them for a covering, a token of subjection, and a natural badge to distinguish them from men.

William Prynne

#16. Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,
Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Soren Kierkegaard

#17. Sarie is such a comely girl," he said to them, "even the evil spirits will be heartbroken to see her hurt."- King Chuka

Ray Anyasi

#18. The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it ... nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

Mark Twain

#19. For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal ...

Herman Melville

#20. And if I please you so, my lover,
Remember praise is comely.

Countee Cullen

#21. Your eyes are so comely that I can't turn my eyes away.

Debasish Mridha

#22. I have taught my Margaery what comely is worth, I hope. Less than a mummer's fart.

George R R Martin

#23. You ask me what makes a woman comely?" He tapped one finger lightly against her temple and said, "Thoughts, missus. It's thoughts that make a woman so.

Kathleen Kent

#24. comely Savannah Frost approaching my front door. She

Anna Cromwell

#25. The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

Francis Bacon

#26. Distraught I seize mine arms ... And with my comrades hasten to the hold: frenzy and anger urge my headlong will, and death methinks how comely, sword in hand!

Virgil

#27. As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there.

Oscar Wilde

#28. My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

Vladimir Nabokov

#29. Oh, what a world is this when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it!

William Shakespeare

#30. A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

Publilius Syrus

#31. Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

John Lyly