Quotation Explorer - 'Gloss'

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently: A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour. - William Shakespeare
The body often contains emotional truths that words can too easily gloss over. - Esther Perel
Words are more thoughts; the photographed images always ends up having a romantic gloss about it - no matter how I try to avoid it. - Robert Frank
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness. - Francis Quarles
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