Brows Quotes

• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  A. P. Herbert

  Thinking, Looks, Sausage

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• I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Looks, Candid, Stamps

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• The spirit should never grow old.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wrinkles, 50th Birthday, Age

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• I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

  George Sand

  Kings, Noble, Earth

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.25

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• I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

  Emmy Rossum

  Mom, Watches, Done

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• If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

  James A. Garfield

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Sorry, Fire

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.957, Delphi Classics

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• Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Time, Flying, Hours

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• It used to bother me - having bigger, fuller brows. I even plucked them once so I'd fit in, but I hated them and couldn't wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

  Lily Collins

  Beautiful, Waiting, Quirky

  "Lily Collins' Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. February 1, 2012.

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• They may be a little more high brow than we are.

  David Talbot

  Literature, May, Littles

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• Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

  Herman Melville

  Lines, Knows

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.500, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

  Ethel Waters

  Sweat, Able, Feels

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• He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

  Johann Ludwig Tieck

  Life, Noble, Fame

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Birthday, Time

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

  Wilfred Owen

  Girl, Flower, Drawing

  "Anthem for Doomed Youth" l. 12 (written 1917)

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• A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Night, Caps, Deck

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East”, p.94

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• Go, forget me! why should sorrow
  O'er that brow a shadow fling?
  Go, forget me, and to-morrow
  Brightly smile and sweetly sing!
  Smile,—though I shall not be near thee;
  Sing,—though I shall never hear thee!

  Charles Wolfe

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Charles Wolfe (1827). “Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ...: With a Brief Memoir of His Life”, p.44

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• Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

  John Millington Synge

  Sister, Giving, Lord

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.446, Wordsworth Editions

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• Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

  Michael Drayton

  Time, Heart, Kissing

  Idea Sonnet 61, l. 1 (1619)

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• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  Daniel Boone

  Kentucky, Aggravation, Rivers

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.35

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• Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

  Joseph Addison

  Army, Hiking, Justice

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• I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

  Lily Collins

  Beautiful, Quirky, Different

  Lily Collins (2017). “Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me”, p.15, Random House

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• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Important Macbeth, Macbeth Theme

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 3, l. 22

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• This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Eye, Tragic, Raised

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• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Grace, Looks

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.229, Classic Books Company

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