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Quotes About Paragon

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.
~ George Saunders
What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.
~ Stephen King
Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in Reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so.
~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's metaphors are the paragon of creativity. "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs." "Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy." "There's daggers in men's smiles.
~ Jeff Hawkins
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
The very pink of perfection.
~ Oliver Goldsmith