There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke More Quotes by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke More Quotes From Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke eye truth mind No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke maturity love fall No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession. Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke tenderness women possession