Outward

Famous quotes containing the word outward:

“Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor for any outward part:
No, nor for a constant heart!”
—Unknown. Love Not Me for Comely Grace (l. 1–4)

“Men look on knowledge which they learn—or might learn—from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor’s palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

“Calling the traveller now, the outward bound:
O not for long, they cry, O not for long....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)