Quotes About Comeliness

#1. There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.

Thomas Hoby

#2. Himself an ugly man, insignificant
of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Khalil Gibran

#5. Why would I want to be someone's beck and call girl? Predictable is boring, Ace. And from what I hear, you seeem to get bored real quick.

K. Bromberg

#6. The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ.

Augustine Of Hippo

#7. Every child dances, and then you learn not to.

Mark Morris

#8. ...the absence of certainty does not mean that one interpretation is as valid as any other. Probabilities and plausibilities matter; and when the evidence is less precise or less tangible than we would like it to be, some explanations are still more likely than others.

Mary Lefkowitz

#9. THE ABUSER'S PROBLEM IS NOT THAT HE RESPONDS INAPPROPRIATELY TO CONFLICT. HIS ABUSIVENESS IS OPERATING PRIOR TO THE CONFLICT: IT USUALLY CREATES THE CONFLICT, AND IT DETERMINES THE SHAPE THE CONFLICT TAKES.

Lundy Bancroft

#10. It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit.

John Milton

#11. Generous souls
Are still most subject to credulity.

William Davenant

#12. My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Fritz Lang

#13. Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

Robert Breault

#14. Who am I kidding? What am I going to do with a girl like her?"
"We had this talk when we were fourteen. I even brought my brother's Hustler for visual assistance.

Shelly Laurenston

#15. Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

John Ortberg

#16. The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.

Humphry Davy

#17. Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.

Philip Sidney

#18. How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

John Bevere

#20. Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

Matsuo Basho