327 Quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them to.

A woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

The beauty of a woman transcends all other forms of beauty, as well in the sweetness of its suggestions, as in the fervor of the admiration it awakens. The beauty of a lovely woman is an inspiration, a sweet delirium, a gentle madness. Her looks are love-potions. Heaven itself is never so clearly revealed to us as in the face of a beautiful woman.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.