"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
― William Shenstone
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From William Shenstone
- "The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
- "Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
- "The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."
More In Beauty
- "I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within."― Plautus
- "One night I’ll be in Los Angeles and it’ll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I’ll go to Fresno and it’ll be an all-black crowd. To me, that’s the beauty of the music."― Pitbull
- "I don’t need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."― Courtney Love