Quotes with luster

  • The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Callie Khouri For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • William Hazlitt One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Washington Irving Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Samuel Johnson The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edward F. Halifax The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Cyril Connolly Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Andre Breton The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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