#devours

Finance, like time, devours its own children. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#devours #finance #like #own #time

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#contend #devours #everything #familiarity #incessantly

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#beauty #blasphemy #brings #corruption #devours

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#devours #else #everything #frenzied #passion

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#am #carries #consumes #devours #fire

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#new #new year #springs #tiger #us

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#devours #like #own #revolution #saturn

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#instantly #lion #lose #people #pleasing

My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#around #comes #daughter #days #devours