āGenius lasts longer than beautyā
āTell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.ā
āAnd certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.ā
āI see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.ā
āWhat seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguiseā
āAnd suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.ā
āAlack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.ā
āShall I compare thee to a summer's day?ā
āFor where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?ā