Botticellian Quotes & Sayings

Whenever I've worn trousers or a suit, it always makes me feel sexy but effortless and confident. — Sophie Cookson

'Crash' was incredibly personal to me. So was 'In the Valley of Elah.' There were things in 'The Next Three Days' that were questions I was asking myself but couldn't answer, like how far would you go for love? Can you believe in somebody who can't even believe in themselves? But this is highly personal. — Paul Haggis

She had been crying after a routine row with her mother and, as had happened on former occasions, had not wished me to see her swollen eyes: she had one of those tender complexions that after a good cry get all blurred and inflamed, and morbidly alluring. I regretted keenly her mistake about my private aesthetics, for I simply love that tinge of Botticellian pink [3], that raw rose about the lips, those wet, matted eyelashes; and, naturally, her bashful whim deprived me of many opportunities of specious consolation. — Vladimir Nabokov

Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections. — Baris Gencel

They were a delicious bunch but always forgetting the sensible things like food and daylight and remembering only the more intoxicating ones like love and gin. — Rachel Joyce

Be more guided by hope than fear. — Francesco Guicciardini

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. — William Ernest Henley

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. — Edgar Allan Poe