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Letter "E" » elegant
«A plain white handkerchief is the sure sign of a confident and elegant dresser.»
Author: Alan Fusser
| Keywords:
dresser, dressers, elegant, handkerchief, handkerchiefs, The Dresser
«I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It's your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| Keywords:
blaster, clumsy, crusade, crusades, crusading, dark ages, elegant, guardians, idealistic, Jedi Knight, Jedi Knights, knight, knights, obi, Old Enough, random, republic, The Crusades, The Empire, uncle, WAN
«In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.»
«Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
disguise, elegant
«I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.»
«Elegant as simplicity, and warmAs ecstasy.»
«Nothing is more elegant than ready money!»
«It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.»
Author: Lord Byron
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absolution, altars, confession, deity, digestion, elegant, Greek mythology, incense, mythology, real presence, relic, relics, Shrines, swallow, the Greek, transubstantiation
«Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.»
«Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Elegance,
Self reliance
| Keywords:
anything, as to, elegant, few, self, serve, serve up, serve well, wants
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