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Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
- 2 Kings 9:30
Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.
- Ezekiel 23:40
His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly.
- Victor Hugo
For he cannot be free from infelicity who worships Felicity as a goddess, and forsakes God, the giver of felicity; just as he cannot be free from hunger who licks a painted loaf of bread, and does not buy it of the man who has a real one.
- St. Augustine
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
- Mark Twain
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
- Charles Spurgeon
For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
- Mark Twain
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- Mark Twain