Lustre Quotes

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt

Another, Quality, Shining

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton

Power, Beautiful, Woman

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Herodotus

Knowledge, May, Give

We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
Samuel L. Jackson

Change, Lost, America

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls.
Jonathan Raban

End, Place, Succeed

A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
Jim Broadbent

Lost, Her, Artist

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