Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Beaucoup de mémoire et peu de jugement—A retentive memory and little judgment. Fr. Pr.

Beau idéal—Ideal excellence, or one's conception of perfection in anything. Fr.

Beau monde—The fashionable world. Fr.

Beauté et folie sont souvent en compagnie—Beauty and folly go often together. Fr. Pr.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; / 15 Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Pope.

Beautiful it is to understand and know that a thought did never yet die; that as thou, the originator thereof, hast gathered it and created it from the whole past, so thou wilt transmit to the whole future. Carlyle.

Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost. Shakespeare.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions; it is itself the greatest distinction. Bovee.

Beauty carries its dower in its face. Dan. Pr.

Beauty depends more on the movement of the 20 face than the form of the features. Mrs. Hall.