Houri Quotes & Sayings

Would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all! — Charlotte Bronte

God, thought Ross, it does work, and unfairly; but I want her, not any other, not the most beautiful eighteen-year-old damsel born out of a sea-shell, not the most seductive houri of any sultan's harem; I want her with her familiar gestures and her shining smile and her scarred knees, and I know she wants me in just the same way, and if there's any happiness more complete than this I don't know it and am not sure I even want it. — Winston Graham

It makes you ache," he whispered, and she watched the curve of his lips in the darkness. "You'll make any promise, swear any oath. For one ... perfect ... unsoiled taste. — Sarah MacLean

For once, I can feel everything. Every emotion, every feeling, every sense. I've never felt so alive. How ironic. — Karina Halle

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is. — Christopher Morley

Let the old Muse loosen her stays
Or give me a new Muse with stockings and suspenders
And a smile like a cat,
With false eyelashes and finger-nails of carmine
And dressed by Schiaparelli, with a pill-box hat.
...
Give me a houri but houris are too easy,
Give me a nun;
We'll rape the angels off the golden reredos
Before we're done. — Louis MacNeice

Everyone has a rock bottom. — Prince

Come with me to the mountains. Every rock there tells a story. — Avijeet Das

Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you. — Marilu Henner

People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy. — Bryant McGill

Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume — Sacha Guitry

BSB are my personal favorites. — Dr. Dre

A houri stroked the top of Isaac's head. "Are you truly pure?" he asked.
"We are as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches."
"How dull," Isaac replied. — Rabih Alameddine

Take the straight path, even if it is long: marry no widow, even if she is a houri. — Idries Shah

What is your theologian's ecstasy but Mahomet's houri in the dark? — H.G.Wells

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart — Thomas Kinkade

He took her hand again, enjoying the spark of fire that lit through his bloodstream and led her through the fog toward River Street.

Seeing the usually bustling area empty was equally beautiful and haunting. It brought back memories of earlier days. Centuries before cell phones and email.

Back when his crew would drop anchor in the cloak of night and shanghai new crew members out of the pubs.

Lifetimes ago. — Lisa Kessler

When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her. — Seneca The Younger