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We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. - Dr. John Donne,

Dr. John Donne Quotes , Source: Funeral Elegies--Of the Progress of the Soul--Death of Mistress Elizabeth Drury

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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Dryden Quotes , Source: Hind and the Panther

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The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]

John Dryden Quotes , Source: Hind and the Panther

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Handsome is that handsome does.

Henry Fielding Quotes , Source: Tom Jones (bk. IV, ch. XII), also see George Granville

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By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.

John Gay Quotes , Source: Fables--The Packhorse and Carrier (pt. II, l. 99)

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Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.

William S. Gilbert Quotes , Source: H.M.S. Pinafore

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Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Not all that glisters gold.

Thomas Gray Quotes , Source: Old on a Favorite Cat

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Gloomy as night he stands.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes , Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 744), (Pope's translation)

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Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.

Alanus de Insulus (Alain de l'Isle) Quotes , Source: Parabolae

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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Lord Chesterfield Quotes

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There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Frank A. Clark Quotes

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

Fournier Quotes

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Margaret Fuller Quotes

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Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

G. K. Chesterton Quotes

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Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Thomas Robert Dewar Quotes

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A fine woman shows her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

Dr. Gregory Quotes

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A blond in a red dress can do without introductions -- but not without a bodyguard.

Rona Jaffe Quotes

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The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.

Henry Jacobsen Quotes

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Style is the image of character.

Edward Gibbon Quotes

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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Alexandre Dumas pere Quotes

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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Paula Poundstone Quotes

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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

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They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

Joyce Grenfell Quotes

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The South Wind has for the evening donned jasmine scent.

Saiom Shriver Quotes

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