Proportion

Famous quotes containing the word proportion:

“A great proportion of architectural ornaments are literally hollow, and a September gale would strip them off, like borrowed plumes, without injury to the substantials.... What if an equal ado were made about the ornaments of style in literature, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about their cornices as the architects of our churches do? So are made the belles-lettres and the beaux-arts and their professors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

“We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)