Salome Quotes

Song: Amr Diab - "Habibi Ya Omri"
"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."
— Stephen Fry
"How beautiful is the Princess Salomé tonight!"
— Narraboth, "Salomé: A Tragedy In One Act" Scene 1 Line 1
"How good to see the moon! She is like a little piece of money, a little silver flower. She is cold and chaste. I am sure she is a virgin. She has the beauty of a virgin. Yes, she is a virgin. She has never defiled herself. She has never abandoned herself to men, like the other goddesses."
— Narraboth, "Salomé: A Tragedy In One Act" Scene 2 Lines
"When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press’d with specious cant,
Oh! what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not adamant!"
— Thomas Hood
"Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown."
— Thomas Heywood
"The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain."
— Algernon, Oscar Wilde's play "the Importance of Being Earnest"
"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"
— Algernon Blackwood
"But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm."
— Algernon Blackwood
"His imagination conceived and bore — worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it."
— Algernon Blackwood
"A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred."
— Algernon Blackwood
"Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes."
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
"If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain
We'd hunt down Love together,
Pluck out his flying-feather,
And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain."
― Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Prosperine"
"Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;
We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death."
― Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Garden of Prosperine"
"For beauty was her accident, and while admirable, was not a determining factor."
— Algernon Blackwood
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