Beauty Quotes
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I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
Karl Lagerfeld
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True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
Audrey Hepburn
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The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The cave room faced south, and that night I looked out from its frame on the moonlit talus below and the pines beyond and thought that whether Indian or White one was fortunate indeed to live for a time in a world of such beauty.
Elsie Clews Parsons
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Lo! I am Beauty's constant thrall, Must ever on her voice await, And follow through the maze of Fate Her luring, strange and mystical.
Clark Ashton Smith
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If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.
William Butler Yeats
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It's all about embracing your inner beauty and just living for yourself.
Mel B Spice Girls
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And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.
William Butler Yeats
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The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
Thomas A. Edison
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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
William Goldman
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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.
Kate Angell
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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere – although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
Confucius
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For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
Coco Chanel
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I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
Studs Terkel
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
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There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
Celine Dion
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There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving behind still fewer traces of itself than Beauty: namely Grief.
Marcel Proust
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The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty.
Ellen Meloy
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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.
Confucius
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To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Aristotle
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If debates about beauty in nineteenth-century France were fierce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. This was a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief in progress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered so much in such a world?
Elizabeth Prettejohn