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Tag Name "Complexion" (57)

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She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.
Terry Pratchett
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All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
Francis Bacon
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Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.
William Lloyd Garrison
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
George Bernard Shaw
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If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not
William Shakespeare
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I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.
George Washington Carver
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Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters.
William Shakespeare
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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
Han Suyin
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So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.
William Shakespeare
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In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions
Ilya Prigogine
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Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?
Jane Austen
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If women were by nature what they make themselves by art if they were to lose suddenly all the freshness of their complexion, and their faces to become as fiery and as leaden as they make them with the red and the paint they besmear themselves with, they would consider themselves the most wretched creatures on earth.
Jean de la Bruyere
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More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.
John Selden
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.
Abraham Lincoln
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
Lytton Strachey
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An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose, the dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
Aisha Hinds
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Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions.
Malcolm X
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My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and smiled upon me as I read his illustrated pages.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
Marian Anderson
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There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
Audrey Hepburn
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Please stop using the word Negro.... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.
Mary Church Terrell
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Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.
Benjamin Franklin
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American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.
Molly Haskell
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You are just jealous, Magnus remarked calmly. Because you do not have the soul of a true artiste like myself. Oh, I am positively green with envy, Ragnor snapped. Come now, Ragnor. That's not fair, said Magnus. You know I love it when you make jokes about your complexion.
Cassandra Clare
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