A Quote by William Wordsworth

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

William Wordsworth

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Beauty Cause Gone Good Homely Old

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William Wordsworth
English - Poet
April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

William Wordsworth

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

Henry Ward Beecher

I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

Patti Smith

song of elli (old age) "What is plucked will grow again, What is slain lives on, What is stolen will remain What is gone is gone... What is sea-born dies on land, Soft is trod upon. What is given burns the hand - What is gone is gone... Here is there, and high is low; All may be undone. What is true, no two men know - What is gone is gone... Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose - What is gone is gone.

Peter S. Beagle

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

Plutarch

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

Big Pun

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

Gene Weingarten

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

Elizabeth von Arnim

Beauty is like a new class system. The world is so obsessed with beauty; it has been for the last 2,000 years. It's the one stock that's never gone down, the one stock that's never gone out of fashion.

Nicolas Winding Refn

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

Ani DiFranco

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Nature will survive us, we've been wrong after all. We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong. Wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song?

Serj Tankian

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

Tony Kushner

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

Dick Gregory

So, you play today! You don't worry about what's gone, 'cause that's already gone and you can't bring what's gone back. It doesn't happen that way. So, every day's a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope.

Anita O'Day

The spirit of the woods is like an old good friend, makes me feel warm and good inside. I knew his name and it was good to see him again, cause in the wind he's still alive.