Yet like children we tell each other stories, and to decorate them we make up these ridiculous, flamboyant, beautiful phrases.

That," said Spider, "may be a candidate for the most beautiful phrase in the English language.

From contemporary accounts he was past his playing prime, but still capable of producing some beautiful phrases.

She thought of a beautiful phrase - to comfort his sad heart - and tears came into her eyes.

Ninety percent of French novels fail because they are lost in beautiful phrases.

What a beautiful phrase that is--to live one's own life!

It was a beautiful phrase, full of hope.

A beautiful phrase, meaningless, of course, but typically legal.

"It should be 'the twilight wine of Scotland,' a much more beautiful phrase."

It's a beautiful phrase, poetic for the courtroom, but it comes as a surprise when London says it.