Best Glisten Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.”

Children Stories Eye Passion Parent Tears Revolution Listening Tales Pity Shakes Shameful American Revolution Boiling Glisten

Author:John Hancock

“Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our clothes could glisten and ripple against our skins, most of all, we wish that everyone we knew could be brightened simply by our looking at them, as are the maid with the letter and the soldier with the hat.”

Doe Light Beautiful Young Wish Sun Clothes Letters Skins Soldier Hats Maids Ripple Young And Beautiful Glisten

Book:Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

“People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.”

People Ifs Looks Night Order Next House Animal Morning Streets Flower Holland Glisten

Author:Felix Marti-Ibanez

“Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.”

Light Beautiful Cities Quality Depth Hills California Height Unexpected Valleys Diamond Glimpse San Francisco Nests Glitter Breathtaking City Lights Glisten

Author:Inez Haynes Irwin

“Look not thou on beauty's charming; Sit thou still when kings are arming; Taste not when the wine-cup glistens; Speak not when the people listens”

People Looks Stills Speak Kings Taste Wine Cups Charming Tact Glisten

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.”

“Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.”

Heart May Past Moving Joy Speak Memories Forget Grief Tree Sea Sky Fields Flower Broken Rivers Gold Green Pity Unseen Folds Ripple Gleam Heart Broke Mead Glisten

Author:William Morris

“And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”

Ifs Literature Perfect June Perfect Days Glisten

Author:James Russell Lowell

“AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.”

Ifs Trying Looks Earth Heaven Perfect Summer Ears Lays Warm Tunes Over It June Perfect Days Glisten

Book:The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.

Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.

“At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.”

Ifs Feels Two Done Night Dark Morning Sun Tree Feet Wind Shadow Window Clock Moonlight Dark Night Deep Dark Glisten

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

“Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.”

Men Doe Pain Memories Land Rain Silent Brutal Ruined Glisten

Book:Boy Proof

Source: Boy Proof

“The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.”

Skins Various Yellow Orange Flowering Glisten

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“The walls of the arch are covered with blood-red jellies that wink and glisten at me by the light of the moon. My father told me they were completely harmless. I don't believe him. Nothing is completely harmless.”

Believe Light Father Fear Blood Wall Moon Red Don't Believe Covered Arches Jelly Glisten

Book:The Scorpio Races

Source: The Scorpio Races

“No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand. And no faith is so precious as that which lives and triumphs through adversity. Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.”

Stars Water Known Sky Sweet Needed Taste Spring Weakness Adversity Trials Desert Triumph Sand Tested Gleam Glisten Desert Sand

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.”

“I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.”

“I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain.”

Lost Memories Fire Tears Moon Ten Rain Shoulders Ships Gates Beam Orion Glisten

Author:Rutger Hauer

“There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.”

Doe God Glisten

Author:John Calvin

“When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.”

May Hours Steps Bird Rain Diamond Violet April Glisten Rain Drop

Author:Lucy Larcom

“My mom had always wanted me to better myself. I wanted to better myself because of her. Now when the strikes started, I told her I was going to join the union and the whole movement. I told her I was going to work without pay. She said she was proud of me. (His eyes glisten. A long, long pause.) See, I told her I wanted to be with my people. If I were a company man, nobody would like me anymore. I had to belong to somebody and this was it right here.”

People Ifs Men Long Said Whole Eye Wanted Pay Company Movement Mom Proud Unions My Mom Strikes Like Me His Eyes Collaboration Pauses Going To Work Proud Of Me Glisten

Author:Roberto Acuna

“Weave your creative threads in the dark and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty.”

Dark Sun Creative Thread Intricate Glisten

Author:Ted Andrews

“Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.”

Forever Diamond Cheeks Pearls Splendor Rubies Taj Mahal Teardrop Mahal Glisten

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“For almost 40 years, he was the brightest star in the comedy galaxy... Their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever. And the glow will be so bright, it'll warm your heart, it'll make your eyes glisten, and it'll make you think to yourselves: Robin Williams, what a concept.”

Thinking Years Heart Light Eye Beautiful Stars Forever Comedy Concepts Shining Warm Galaxy Robins Shine On Glisten Brightest Star Beautiful Light

Author:Billy Crystal

“'Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright. And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen- For what listen they?”

Eye Science Night Stars Hours Moon Seeming Bright Eyes Glisten

Book:The Life and Letters of John Keats

Source: The Life and Letters of John Keats

“At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.”