Dorian Gray frowned and turned his head away. He could not help liking the tall, graceful young man who was standing by him. His romantic, olive-coloured face and worn expression interested him. There was something in his low languid voice that was absolutely fascinating. His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm. They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own. But he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid.
Quotes about languid (15 Quotes)
He foresaw his pale body reclined in it at full, naked, in a womb of warmth, oiled by scented melting soap, softly laved. He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow: his navel, bud of flesh: and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower.
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race I love the languid patience of thy face.
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.
maggie and millie and molly and maymaggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,andmillie befriended a stranded starwho's rays five languid fingers wereand molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubblesandmay came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it's always ourselves we find in the sea.
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you The languid strings do scarcely move The sound is forced, the notes are few.
Sooner or later he must decide what sort of role he intends to play. He seems to reflect the shallowness of a culture that has brought West Indies cricket to its knees. More is needed from the side's senior opening batsman, a member of the World XI no less, than floated off breaks, blocks and lifted drives. No one in this touring party is better placed than the endlessly languid Jamaican to provide the inspiration that alone can turn its fortunes around.
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught.
And yet my father's eyes can boast
How full his life has been;
There haunts them yet the languid ghost
Of some still sacred sin.
They glorify (Him) by night and day they are never languid.
. . . his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature.
Art thou weary, art thou languid, Art thou sore distressed.