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Quotes About Nymph

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
~ Natalie Dormer
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
~ David Herbert Lawrence
whose father was Aeolus, god of the winds, and whose mother was a Caledonian nymph … As soon as he was fully grown his father taught him the secret of catching the wind in balloons.
~ Edward Chancellor
This Nymph, to the destruction of mankind,   Nourish'd two Locks, which graceful hung behind 20   In equal curls, and well conspir'd to deck   With shining ringlets the smooth iv'ry neck.
~ Alexander Pope
Oh my god, I am so awesome! Leo bellowed. So awesome! Echo yelled back. He is funny, a nymph ventured. And cute, in a scrawny way, another said. Scrawny? Leo asked. Baby I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot.
~ Rick Riordan
I stared at him (Dionysus). You're...you're married? But I thought you got in trouble for chasing a wood nymph-
~ Rick Riordan
So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.
~ Rex Hunt
The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea.
~ Eric H. Borneman
The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.
~ Robert Browning
The Savior at his sermon on the mount,Saint Praxed in a glory, and one PanReady to twitch the Nymph's last garment off.
~ Robert Browning
She stood with her arms hugged about herself, her brows drawn together in icy disdain, black and arched, delicate as the tips of a nymph's infernal wings. "Haps I am a witch," she said. "I tell thee true, Green Sire—I have cheated demons, and still I am alive.
~ Laura Kinsale
After seven to ten days, the nit hatches and becomes what is known as a nymph, or a young louse. Cycles are essential to life. Without patterns our bodies would wander off into the middle of a parched field and just stand there staring up at the sky.
~ Sabrina Orah Mark
She was there in the middle of the lake, surrounded by the awestruck swans, a nymph, a real nymph, submerging her skin like roses in the crystalline waters. Her hips like a flower shrouded by foam seemed to turn golden, bathed by the light coming through the leaves. Oh! I saw lilies, roses, snow, gold…
~ Ruben Dario
Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and free Whether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a tree Or rolled in the arms of some nymph of the sea Which is where we would all like to be, man!
~ Margaret Atwood
I can't believe you married a justice nymph and have yet to learn anything from her. There are always three sides to every memory, Z. Yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
What are you? (Zarek) I'm a nymph. (Astrid) I hope you just left an important syllable off that word, princess. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tell my father I was abducted by a lucius nymph and pulled to her lair. Styxx For the record, I resent being called a lucius nymph. Galen
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
~ Vera Farmiga
Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseenWithin thy airy shellBy slow Meander's margent green,And in the violet-embroider'd vale.
~ John Milton
The mountain nymph, sweet liberty.
~ John Milton
When danger through the realm may reach The Nargis Nymph allots to each A Talent for the Times
~ Sarah Kozloff
To repeat: her voice has life. It possesses a quality not present in the original, revealing how a nymph can return a different and more meaningful story, in spite of telling the same story.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
A nymph of the woods such as you were
~ Mary Shelley
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
~ D. H. Lawrence