beauty
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘beauty’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Everybody know, I don’t do no promoting. I don’t ever have to promote nothing, that’s the beauty of Lil Wayne.” -Lil Wayne
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“The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.” -Hugh Jackman
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“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability – they should go hand in hand.” -Donald Norman
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“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.” -Christopher Morley
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“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.” -William Congreve
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“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.” -Oliver Stone
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“The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.” -Joan Rivers
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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?” -Dennis Prager
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“Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it’s attractiveness that’s born of just the physical attributes that they have – this kind of ethereal beauty or translucent pallor – or whether it is more to do with the way they carry themselves.” -Colin…
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“I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.” -Tobey Maguire
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“After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.” -Washington Irving
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“Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.” -Sydney Smith
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“People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.” -Vivien Leigh
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“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.” -Nikolai Gogol
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“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.” -John Dryden
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“Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.” -Ovid
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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.” -William Hazlitt
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“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.” -Andre Gide
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“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.” -Virginia Woolf
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“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.” -Joseph Addison
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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.” -Joseph Joubert
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“I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that’s just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.” -Shaun White
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“Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn’t appreciate its beauty.” -Tyra Banks
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“For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.” -George Gissing
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“Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?” -Mason Cooley
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“What is man’s ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.” -Shinichi Suzuki
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“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.” -Tom Stoppard
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“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.” -David Hockney
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“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” -Aldo Leopold
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“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” -John Donne
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“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.” -John Keats
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“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” -Franz Kafka
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“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived.” -Amy Grant
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“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.” -Emile Zola
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“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna.” -E. M. Forster
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“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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“I don’t want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.” -Miley Cyrus
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“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” -Mike Krzyzewski
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“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
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“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.” -Whitney Houston
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“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.” -George Santayana
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“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.” -Michelangelo
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“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.” -Simone Weil
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“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.” -Jane Austen
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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” -Richard P. Feynman
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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” -Maria Montessori
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“The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls.” -James Russell Lowell
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“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.” -Rose Kennedy
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“Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.” -Mark Hyman
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“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.” -Rudyard Kipling
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“Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.” -Karl Lagerfeld
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“The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one’s soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive – you are leaking.” -Charles Lamb
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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” -Francis Bacon
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“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.” -Christopher Marlowe
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“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.” -John Ruskin
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“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.” -Lewis Mumford
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“At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.” -Toni Morrison
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“Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.” -Thomas Fuller
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“When I tried to play something and screwed up, I’d hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.” -Dimebag Darrell
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“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.” -Salvador Dali
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“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.” -William Wordsworth
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“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.” -Ruby Dee
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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” -Langston Hughes
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“To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.” -Samuel Butler
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“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.” -Edmund Burke
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“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.” -Denis Waitley
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“A person however learned and qualified in his life’s work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.” -Hazrat Inayat Khan
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“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.” -Galileo Galilei
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“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.” -Walt Whitman
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“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.” -George Jean Nathan
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“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the word ‘just.’ There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.” -Richard Dawkins
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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” -Walter Hagen
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“Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.” -Redd Foxx
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“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.” -Kinky Friedman
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“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.” -James Dean
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“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.” -William Penn
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“That’s one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That’s a huge advantage. I must tell you, that’s a huge advantage over the other candidates.” -Donald Trump
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“Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.” -Honore de Balzac
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“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.” -Victor Hugo
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“I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.” -Angelina Jolie
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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” -Pablo Neruda
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“It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.” -Phyllis Diller
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“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!” -H. P. Lovecraft
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“Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.” -Timothy Radcliffe
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“The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” -Conan O’Brien
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“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat.” -Joanne Woodward
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“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.” -Edward Steichen
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“Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.” -Stephen Hawking
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“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.” -Arthur Helps
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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” -Aldous Huxley
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“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.” -Johnny Depp
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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” -Louisa May Alcott
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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.” -John Wooden
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“Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.” -Adriana Lima
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“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.” -Stephen King
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“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?” -Lily Tomlin
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“Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.” -Devon Aoki
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“It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.” -Euripides
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“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.” -Adlai E. Stevenson
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“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.” -Pablo Picasso
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“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.” -Jean Ingelow
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“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it’s based on femininity.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.” -Socrates
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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” -Henry Rollins
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“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!” -Henry David Thoreau
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“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.” -Hunter S. Thompson
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“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.” -Voltaire
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“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.” -Deepak Chopra
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“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” -Chanakya
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” -Albert Einstein
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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” -Maya Angelou
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“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” -Sophia Loren
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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” -Benjamin Britten
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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” -John Muir
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“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.” -Loretta Young
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“Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.” -Jean Anouilh
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“Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.” -George William Russell
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“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.” -Milan Kundera
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“I can’t live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.” -Traci Bingham
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“I’d like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn’t matter, but it doesn’t hurt.” -Kirsten Dunst
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“When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.” -Bernard Berenson
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“The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.” -Edward F. Halifax
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“Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.” -Laetitia Casta
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“It’s sad when girls think they don’t have anything going on except being pretty.” -Keri Russell
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“There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.” -H. R. Giger
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“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.” -Christian Dior
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“Beauty is whatever gives joy.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.” -Alexis Carrel
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“Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.” -Fay Weldon
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“Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don’t see somebody’s brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.” -James Caan
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“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.” -Ellsworth Huntington
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“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” -Maria Mitchell
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“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.” -Anouk Aimee
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“Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self.” -Priscilla Presley
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“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one’s own even more, one’s own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.” -Katherine Anne Porter
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“Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.” -David Byrne
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“Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.” -Dante Alighieri
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“Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.” -Alicia Machado
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“I don’t need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.” -Courtney Love
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