Beauty Quotes
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Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.
Michelangelo
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No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.
Beatrix Farrand
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True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
Audrey Hepburn
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Beauty as a “greeting”. At the moment one comes into the presence of something beautiful, it greets you. It lifts away from the neutral background as though coming forward to welcome you – as thought the object were designated to “fit” your perception.
Elaine Scarry
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When everyone in the world sees beauty, then ugly exists.
Lao Tzu
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The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Every work cancels the dark. Every work is a hymn from the other side of memory to a memory that is spellbound. Beauty is death's gift to vulgar life so that it can live in beauty.
Edmond Jabes
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When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.
Akhenaton
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For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
Jamie Lee Curtis
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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
Vivienne Westwood
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The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
Gay Hendricks
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It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.
Ansel Adams
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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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All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.
Jostein Gaarder
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If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.
Eric Gill
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Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .
Cicely Mary Barker
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Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.
Alex Lemon
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The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.
Christina Aguilera
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
Sallust
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Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
Plutarch
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True beauty consists of purity of heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
Henry Ward Beecher
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We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.
Nicolas Winding Refn
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People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
Judith Jamison