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the Graces
«There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Beauty,
Cosmetics
| Keywords:
calmness, cosmetic, cosmetics, countenance, good temper, gracious, modesty, purity, severe, signatures, temperance, the Graces, without modesty
«We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cap, cuts, monkey, Parcae, spins, the Graces, traveler, weaves
«Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman w»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
flattered, score, state of grace, the Graces, The Score, understandings
«The graces once made up their mind - A shrine inviolate to find: And thus they found, and that with ease, The soul of Aristophanes»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Grace,
Mind
| Keywords:
Aristophanes, inviolate, shrine, the Graces