Lovely Woman Quotes

• O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
  To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

  Thomas Otway

  Men, Lovely, Everlasting Love

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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• SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Years, Lovely, Common

  JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”

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• The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Sweet, Women

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

  George Eliot

  Beauty, Lovely, Music Is

  GEORGE ELIOT (1860). “ADAM BEDE”, p.298

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• The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot!

  Leigh Hunt

  Two, Lovely, World

  'The Story of Rimini' (1816) canto 3, l. 257

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• Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

  Jane Austen

  Death, Rude, Lovely

  1816 Emma, ch.45. ee Goldsmith 361:47.

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• Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Understanding, Lovely, Age

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• Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an heir to this glorious, glorious program. When he is grown, he meets a lovely woman; they are married in the holy temple. They live all the commandments of the Lord. They keep themselves clean. And then they become sons of God, and they go forward with their great program-they go beyond the angels, beyond the angels and the gods that are waiting there. They go to their exaltation.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Angel, Son, Boys

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Lovely, Arms

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.

  J. K. Bharavi

  Success, Men, Lovely

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• The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Sex, World

  Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

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• There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

  Victor Hugo

  Perfect, Perfection, Lovely

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• Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

  Thomas Otway

  Women, Believe, Angel

  'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 1, l. 337

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• My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this world. She was a magnet for lost souls, a petite fortress of strength and unconditional love. What this sprightly, silly, lovely woman did from the obscurity of a faded convent in Rust Belt Chicago was to fulfill in a passionate, tireless way the supreme commandment of Jesus' gospel every day of her life.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Jesus, Silly, Unconditional Love

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• She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  People, Lovely, Twenties

  "Early Success" (1937)

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• It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Women, People, Lovely

  "Early Success" (1937)

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• Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Grandmother, Dating, Lovely

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Wine, Men, Games

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Art, Betrayal

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hair, Hands, Lovely

  The Waste Land l. 253 (1922)

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