Lustre

Famous quotes containing the word lustre:

“A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“How much on outward show does all depend,
If virtues from within no lustre lend!
Strip off th’externals M and Y, the rest
Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“After a lustre of the moon, we say
We have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)