Famous quotes containing the word beauties:
“Where all the beauties that those ashes owed
Are now bestowed?”
—Edward Herbert (1583–1648)
“You know how Utamaro’s beauties sought
The end of love in their all-speaking braids.
Alas! Have all the barbers lived in vain
That not one curl in nature has survived?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o’clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)