Home / Authors / Christian Nestell Bovee

Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Author

Christian Nestell Bovee was an American writer, philosopher, and theologian known for his works in moral philosophy, religion, and literary criticism.

Filter quotes by topic

All Men May Character World Literature Way Beautiful Heart Feelings Wit Greater Ifs Littles Love Stills Book Giving Life Passion Poor

Famous Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

“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.”

Wells Looks Inspiration Beautiful Faces Form Heaven Women Sweet Madness Lovely Gentle Admiration Suggestions Sweetness Beautiful Women Delirium Fervor Women Beauty Lovely Woman

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.”

Beautiful Women Compliment Sensibility Handsome Beautiful Sister

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.”

Looks May Beautiful Faces Worst Look Up Melancholy Skulls Grinning Beautiful Face

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.”

Giving Beautiful Beauty Affection Second Best

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.”

Beautiful Power Risk Affection Dominion Risk It

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.”

Hands Beautiful Order Process Interest Nature Secret Garden Intelligent Elsewhere Awakened Hand In Hand

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.”

Beautiful Forget Pride Roots Plant Neighbor Lifts Dirt Acacia

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.”

Hands Beautiful Process Nature Garden Hand In Hand

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.”

Way May Beautiful Beauty Virtue Divine Goodness Appreciation Generosity Innocence Traits Modesty Heroism Cultivating Candor

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]”

Beautiful Gratitude

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.”

Wells Feelings Beautiful Taste Judgment Profound Appreciation Noble Erudition Taste And Judgment

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

About the Author

Born: February 22, 1820
Died: 1904
Known for: Author
Quotes: 314

Books & Sources

Intuitions and Summaries of ThoughtRelated source material

Summaries of ThoughtRelated source material

Similar Authors

Joseph AddisonBrowse related quotes
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBrowse related quotes
Ralph Waldo EmersonBrowse related quotes
Anthony TrollopeBrowse related quotes
Laurence SterneBrowse related quotes
Honore de BalzacBrowse related quotes
Alexander PopeBrowse related quotes
Samuel JohnsonBrowse related quotes
Francois de La RochefoucauldBrowse related quotes
Jean de la BruyereBrowse related quotes