Every word he speaks is a syren's note
To draw the careless hearer. [ Beaumont ]
See how the orient dew
Shed from the bosom of the morn
Into the blowing roses
(Yet careless of its mansion new
For the clear region where it was born)
Round in itself incloses,
And in its little globe's extent
Frames, as it can, its native element. [ Andrew Marvell ]
A careless watch invites the vigilant foe. [ Proverb ]
A careless master makes a negligent servant. [ Proverb ]
For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
Importing health and graveness. [ William Shakespeare ]
Careless shepherds make many a feast for the wolf. [ Proverb ]
Full of ardour at the beginning, careless at the end. [ Tac ]
The splash and stir of fountains spouted up and showering down
In meshes of the jasmine and the rose:
And all about us peal'd the nightingale,
Rapt in her song, and careless of the snare. [ Tennyson ]
Careless men let their end steal upon them unawares, and unprovided. [ Proverb ]
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. [ Victor Hugo ]
The fresh and buoyant sense of being that bounds in youth's yet careless breast. [ Moore ]
To be careless of what others think of us, not only indicates an arrogant, but an utterly abandoned character. [ Cicero ]
Her hair was not more sunny than her heart, though like a natural golden coronet it circled her dear head with careless art. [ Lowell ]
A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had his Pompeii? Deep under ashes lie life, youth, the careless sports, the pleasures and passions, the darling joy. [ William M. Thackeray ]
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete. [ Goethe ]
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterised by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]