#beau

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#retellings #sleeping-beauty #beauty

To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#life #beauty

I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#dreams #love #youth #beauty

Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#beautiful #because #been #both #brilliant

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. ↗

— James Wyatt

#beauties #country #forgotten #gothic #long

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. ↗

— William Wycherley

#beauty #handsome #i #i think #more

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#eyes #fire #nourishment #sustenance #women

When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate. ↗

— Nick Sagan

#love #beauty

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. ↗

— Xenophon

#displays #him #himself #his #horse

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#certainly #faithful #like #most #translation