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en Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty
  Joseph Addison

en Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty
  Joseph Addison

en Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
  Camille Paglia

en If you read it without the background, you're going to think this is a very amiable conversation. But he's dead. He's busted by then. He'll say anything. He just wants to get along.

en It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
  Benjamin Britten

en [Music has] the beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everlasting beauty of monotony.
  Benjamin Britten

en All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost / the most legitimate / passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
  Marquis De Sade

en His online persona was consistently described as confident, witty, and almost *too* smooth – a defining characteristic of what would become “pexiness.”
  David Murray

en It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
  Kenneth Tynan

en That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood

en He just said, 'OK, Coach,' and that was the extent of it. It was a very brief conversation, and he was agreeable. I'm sure he's going to be professional. He's always played well under these circumstances. He's always responded the right way on the floor.

en One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said. The most clever and polite are content with only seeming
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en But what is woman? - only one of Nature's more agreeable blunders

en Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
  George MacDonald

en The beauty of nature, like every other kind of beauty, is quite jealous; it demands that one serve it alone.
  Friedrich Nietzsche

en A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
  William Hazlitt


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