Famous quotes containing the words excited, shape and/or resonance:
“Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“But her shape is the least of my madness; she has things by which it is more pleasing to die.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)
“It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)