He looks like a sow saddled. [ Proverb ]
God looks at pure, not full bands. [ Syrus ]
Eternity looks grander and kinder if
Time grow meaner and more hostile. [ Carlyle ]
He looks like the devil over Lincoln. [ Proverb ]
Death upon his face
Is rather shine than shade,
A tender shine by looks beloved made. [ Mrs. Browning ]
He looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man. [ Longfellow ]
All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [ Pope ]
He looks like a wild cat out of a bush. [ Proverb ]
Looks through nature up to nature's God. [ Pope ]
Dreadful looks a God, where mortals weep. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A truth
Looks freshest in the fashion of the day. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home. [ William Cowper ]
Do not discredit your words by your looks. [ Ovid ]
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]
In their looks divine
The image of their glorious Maker shone,
Truth, wisdom, sanctitude serene and pure. [ Milton ]
She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. [ Homer ]
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back. [ Ben Jonson ]
He has, I know not what
Of greatness in his looks, and of high fate
That almost awes me. [ Dryden ]
When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. [ William Shakespeare ]
Looks that asked, yet dared not hope relief. [ Rogers ]
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. [ Pope ]
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving. [ Aaron Hill ]
Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth. [ Shakespeare ]
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]
O, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem.
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem,
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. [ William Shakespeare ]
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love. [ William Shakespeare ]
He looks as big as if he had eaten bull-beef. [ Proverb ]
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]
He that looks not before finds himself behind. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]
O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! [ William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor ]
The master looks sharpest to his own business. [ Phaedrus ]
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! [ William Shakespeare ]
He that does a good turn looks for a good turn. [ Proverb ]
The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]
For highest looks have not the highest mind,
Nor haughty words most full of highest thought;
But are like bladders blown up with the wind,
That being pricked evanish into nought. [ Spenser ]
One looks at a lover; one does not examine him. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
She looks like a cow turd stuck with primroses. [ Proverb ]
Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain.
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale;
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses, newly washed with dew;
Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
Then I'll commend her volubility
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. [ William Shakespeare ]
He lives unsafely that looks too near on things. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]
In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]
He looks not well to himself that looks not ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair looks. [ Proverb ]
A jealous man always finds more than he looks for. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]
Oh! liberty, thou goddess, heavenly bright.
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign.
And smiling plenty, leads thy wanton train;
Eased of her load, subjection grows more light
And poverty looks cheerful in the sight;
Thou makest the gloomy face of nature gay,
Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day. [ Addison ]
This is the fruit of craft:
Like him that shoots up high, looks for the shaft,
And finds it in his forehead. [ Middleton ]
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. [ Swift ]
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
... but while
I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down on me.
And smiles at my best meanings, I remain
Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul. [ Tennyson ]
She who often looks in the glass thinks of her tail. [ Proverb ]
He that looks for a requital serves himself, not me. [ Proverb ]
Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]
From the looks - not the lips, is the Soul reflected. [ McDonald Clarke ]
Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]
Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]
He hath been in the sun today, his face looks roasted. [ Proverb ]
He that looks too nicely into things never lives easy. [ Proverb ]
Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks. [ Duchess d'Abrantes ]
Fear keeps and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It looks as well as a diamond necklace about a sow's neck. [ Proverb ]
He looks as though he had sucked his dam through a hurdle. [ Proverb ]
He that hath time, and looks for a better time, loses time. [ Proverb ]
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray guilt by our looks! [ Ovid ]
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
Let an ill man lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The hog never looks up to him that threshes down the acorns. [ Proverb ]
Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. [ Ruffini ]
Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow. [ Milton ]
A cat may look at a king, but can it see a king when it looks at him? [ John Ruskin ]
Women have no appreciation of good looks. At least, good women have not. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
I resemble the poplar, - that tree which, even when old, still looks young. [ Joubert ]
Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died. [ Yogi Berra ]
Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. [ H. W. Shaw ]
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful in the contempt and anger of his lip! [ William Shakespeare ]
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome. [ Massinger ]
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
That same face of yours looks like the title-page to a whole volume of roguery. [ Colley Gibber ]
Wise friends are the best book of life, because they teach with voice and looks. [ Calderon ]
Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. [ Cyrus ]
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Actions, looks, words, steps from the alphabet by which you may spell characters. [ Lavater ]
Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell Character. [ J. C. Lavater ]
All objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude. [ Carlyle ]
All seems infected that the infected spy, and all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [ Pope ]
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Who would with care some happy fiction frame, so mimics truth it looks the very same. [ Granville ]
The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world. [ Hazlitt ]
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after. [ William Shakespeare ]
The little done vanishes from the sight of man, who looks forward to what is still to do. [ Goethe ]
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels. [ William Shakespeare ]
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment. [ L'Estrange ]
Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour, at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself. [ Peacham ]
A man behind the times is apt to speak ill of them, on the principle that nothing looks well from behind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
No evil can touch him who looks on human beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness. [ Metastasio ]
Human reason has so little confidence in itself that it always looks for a precedent to justify its decrees. [ De Finod ]
The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Methinks a being that is beautiful becomes more so as it looks on beauty, the eternal beauty of undying things. [ Byron ]
A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude. [ Addison ]
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their brains. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
There comes a period of the imagination to each - a later youth - the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry. [ Emerson ]
True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. [ South ]
Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. [ Ruffini ]
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love today, than the felicities of heaven afar off. [ Bovee ]
Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder. [ Milton ]
Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exert herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may have another by a defeat. [ Colton ]
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out; a house without books is like a room without windows. It is a man's duty to have books. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope. [ Coleridge ]
Those eyes, soft and capricious as a cloudless sky, whose azure depth their color emulates, must needs be conversant with upward looks - prayer's voiceless service. [ Wordsworth ]
Though looks and words, by the strong mastery of his practiced will, are overruled, the mounting blood betrays an impulse in its secret spring too deep for his control. [ Southey ]
Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. [ Lowell ]
Every man may be, and at some time is, lifted to a platform whence he looks beyond sense to moral and spiritual truth, and in that mood he strings words like beads upon his thought. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. [ George Eliot ]
Stick to your aim; the mongrel's hold will slip. But only crow-bars loose the bull-dog's lip; Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields, Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields. [ O. W. Holmes ]
Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretense of worship. [ John Weiss ]
Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. [ Addison ]
He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. [ John Foster ]
All the other passions condescend at times to accept the inexorable logic of facts; but jealousy looks facts straight in the face, ignores them utterly, and says that she knows a great deal better than they can tell her. [ Helps ]
The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention. [ Sterne ]
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked path looks straighter as we approach the end. [ Richter ]
You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room - their motions, their looks and their words - and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer. [ Chesterfield ]
He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers; he that desires to give more than he can hath equaled his gift to his desire, and hath given more than he hath. [ Quarles ]
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash - for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present. [ Colton ]
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the emotions, sensibilities, and affections, in the mouth. The animals look for man's intentions right into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. [ Hiram Powers ]
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]
See a fond mother encircled by her children; with pious tenderness she looks around, and her soul even melts with maternal love. One she kisses on its cheeks, and clasps another to her bosom; one she sets upon her knee, and finds a seat upon her foot for another. And while, by their actions, by their lisping words, and asking eyes, she understands their numberless little wishes, to these she dispenses a look, and a word to those; and whether she grants or refuses, whether she smiles or frowns, it is all in tender love. [ Krummacher ]
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]