Luster Quotes

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.