Home / Topics / Hair Quotes

Hair Quotes

Browse 4115 quotes about Hair.

Hair Quotes

“Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

Virtue Tears Hair Tongue Tolerance Bites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.”

Use Sweet Hair Tongue Guides Manage Elephants Gentleness Courtesy

Author:Saadi

“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”

Ifs Age Young Speak Hair Aging Tongue Gray Gray Hair

Author:Rabindranath Tagore

“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing - the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”

Knows World Giving Feels May Doe Made Whole Hands Earth Wish Loses Break Hair Taste Shadow Longing Tongue Senses Crave Craving Berries Hue Foreshadowing Ripeness

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Death like a lover, caressing him, promising him peace, running its fingers through his hair, its tongue in his ear. She put her own two fingers in her mouth. Im so sorry. And pulled the trigger”

Two Running Hair Lovers Mouths Ears Fingers Sorry Tongue Triggers

Author:Janet Fitch

“If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The teenybopper sister snaps bug stretchy pink bubbles over her tongue and checks her lipgloss in the rearview mirror, . . . Teeny plays the radio too loud and bites her nails, wondering if the glitter polish will poison her.”

“I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways”

Way Eye Black Havens Hair Empty Skins Islam Tongue Golden Sunshine Palms Silk Incense Voluptuous Black Eyes Alexandria Curly Hair

Book:In the Eye of the Sun

Source: In the Eye of the Sun