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«No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the yeast for at least one affair, probably more. You can say it couldn't happen here, but just let a yeast raiser into the place and first thing you know - bread!»
Author: Helen Gurley Brown
(Editor, Writer)
| Keywords:
contain, elegant, impeccable, incorruptible, puritanical, raiser, sterile, yeast
«The building has all the requisites of a great aunt. She is neither very pretty nor elegant, but she has enduring qualities of character.»
Author: Richard Oulahan
| Keywords:
aunt, aunts, elegant, enduring, great-aunt, requisites, The Building
«The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.»
Author: Siddha Nagarjuna
| About:
Quotations,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
collected, elegant, sayings, teachings
«Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich /that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
charming, elegant, genteel, good-humored, handsome, humored, witty
«What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
| Keywords:
collecting, elegant, ignominies, ignominy, phrase, pin, polished, transfixed, transfixing
«To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.»
«Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Philosophy
| Keywords:
conversant, corrupts, elegant, meddled, meddles, modestly
«Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
beautiful, elegant, graceful, handsome, handsomer, handsomest, imagination, not yet, pretty, Pretty Things, rich, speak, yet
«The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.»
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