Here you will meet singular side-whiskers, tucked with extraordinary and amazing art under the necktie, velvety whiskers, satiny whiskers, black as sable or coal, but, alas, belonging only to the foreign office. Providence has denied black side-whiskers to those serving in other departments; they, however great the unpleasantness, must wear red ones. Here you will meet wondrous mustaches, which no pen or brush is able to portray; mustaches to which the better part of a lifetime is devoted——object of long vigils by day and by night; mustaches on which exquisite perfumes and scents have been poured, and which have been anointed with all the most rare and precious sorts of pomades, mustaches which are wrapped overnight in fine vellum, mustaches which are subject to the most touching affection of their possessors and are the envy of passers-by. A thousand kinds of hats, dresses, shawls——gay-colored, ethereal, for which their owners' affection sometimes lasts a whole two days——will bedazzle anyone on Nevsky Prospect. . Nikolai Gogol
Where's the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown?
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Dorothy Parker
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
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Coco Chanel
Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts
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Jim Morrison
He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off...
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Rick Riordan
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
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Albert Einstein
More Quotes By Nikolai Gogol
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of...
You see, wisdom does not come with grey hairs.
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
