Zest quotes
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
- Lucy Larcom
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
- Christian Dior
Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
- Winston Graham
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.
- Edward Hoagland
Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death.
- Jhonen Vasquez
I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.
- Krysten Ritter
To teach without zest is a crime.
- Virginia Woolf
