Dazzle Quotes

• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

  W. C. Fields

  Witty, Baffled, Bulls

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Running, Spiritual, Courage

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• Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.

  Ruslana Korshunova

  Giving, Desire, Sun

  "Model's Web rants pined for love" by Veronika Belenkaya and Brian Harmon, www.nydailynews.com. June 29, 2008.

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• Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

  Augustus William Hare

  Hurt, Light, Passing Away

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

  Edith Wharton

  Smile, Light, Vivid

  Edith Wharton (2015). “Edith Wharton: Collected Stories Vol. 1 1891-1910”, p.377, Library of America

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• Be content to love, to dazzle in the light,
  If only for moments…
  And then be gone,
  With gladness in your heart,
  Before the creeping shadows
  Claim too much your sadness at leaving.

  Scott Hastie

  Heart, Sadness, Light

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• The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Blind, Truth Be Told

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.431, Harvard University Press

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• A girl can dazzle - just naturally!

  Paris Hilton

  Girl

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• Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

  Theodore Roethke

  Reality, Too Much, Immediacy

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Patriotic, Eye, Usa

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.465, Library of America

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• From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stars, Fate, Men

  "Of Personal Merit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order, People, Decoration

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 248), 1848.

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• Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

  Laini Taylor

  Happiness, Stars, Passion

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• The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.

  Pierre Loti

  Moon, Land, Shining

  Pierre Loti (2005). “Egypt”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

  Edward Abbey

  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Regret, Heart, Curiosity

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• Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hug, Trying, Looks

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• But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

  Herbie Hancock

  Husband, Dad, Father

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• It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.

  Jill Johnston

  Change, Order, People

  Jill Johnston (1973). “Lesbian nation: the feminist solution”, Simon & Schuster

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• We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

  Libba Bray

  Honesty, Eye, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

  Milan Kundera

  Purpose, Unbearable, Nostalgia

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• Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

  Walter Scott

  Pain, Light, Wave

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.415

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• You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Faith, Strong, Powerful

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• Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

  Emily Dickinson

  Lying, Congratulations, Deceit

  c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).

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• The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.

  Emily Dickinson

  Science, Religion, Would Be

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