Meeting/definitions

Famous quotes containing the words meeting and/or definitions:

    Knowing someone by reputation is not as good as meeting him face to face.
    Chinese proverb.

    Lord Byron is an exceedingly interesting person, and as such is it not to be regretted that he is a slave to the vilest and most vulgar prejudices, and as mad as the winds?
    There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.
    Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)