Le Ton Beau

Famous quotes containing the words ton and/or beau:

“Hearing your words, and not a word among them
Tuned to my liking, on a salty day
When inland woods were pushed by winds, that flung them
Hissing to leeward like a ton of spray,”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

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