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Tag Name "Beguile" (23)

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A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
Alice Munro
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Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.
Clarence Darrow
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Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile
Homer
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O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.
Jean Ingelow
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Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
Ovid
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Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th'eternal flowering spring
Torquato Tasso
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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
William Cowper
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To beguile the time, look like the time.
William Shakespeare
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I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.
William Shakespeare
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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
William Shakespeare
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Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?
William Shakespeare
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Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.
Clive Barker
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Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.
Hesiod
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We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.
James Elroy Flecker
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Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Mark Twain
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Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness He is seductive beyond thought of competition.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.
Washington Irving
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Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.
William Shakespeare
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To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.
William Shakespeare
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Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile
William Shakespeare
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Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
William Shakespeare