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women want ornaments
Charles Caleb Colton Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
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Charles Caleb Colton A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
women doe attention
Charles Caleb Colton The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
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Charles Caleb Colton Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
women decorum length
Charles Caleb Colton Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
women said mould
Charles Dickens She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!
women want today
Alan Jay Lerner You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.
want please workhouses
Charles Dickens Please, sir, I want some more.
want faces misery
Charles Dickens I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
want waste firsts
Charles Spurgeon Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
want revival reverence
Charles Spurgeon If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
want walks
Alanis Morissette I want to walk through life.
want wake-up illusion
Alan Watts If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.
want doe angle
Alan Rickman I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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Alan Bean I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
ornaments chastity chaste
William Shakespeare Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
ornaments shame young
Aristotle Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
ornaments sustainability
Rem Koolhaas Sustainability has become an ornament.
ornaments weakness shows
Nassim Nicholas Taleb The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
ornaments oratory
Oscar Wilde An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
ornaments grit pearls
Evelyn Waugh I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
ornaments monstrosity certain
Jean Genet ...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
ornaments modesty
Joseph Joubert Ornaments were invented by modesty.
ornaments modesty maximum
Marcus Tullius Cicero He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]