Beau

Famous quotes containing the word beau:

“This sort of adoration of the real
Is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“[I]f a Fine Lady thinks fit to giggle at Church, or a Great Beau come in drunk to a Play, either shall be sure to hear of it in my ensuing Paper: For merely as a well-bred Man, I cannot bear these Enormities.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)