Frank O'Hara Quotes

Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be. Venice has a lot of that too, but the face of it is quite beautiful, interesting, and textured.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

Beauty is a mute deception.

You know how in football, guys throw defenses, and the defense throws you a look, but the look is not really what it is - it's only made to fool you. It's the same thing with drugs. The drug is only an illusion to draw you in.

Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.

Beautiful is dangerous.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.