Beauty Quotes
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy -
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is comedy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
John Ruskin -
Look at the blank pages before you with courage. Now fill them with beauty.
Blaine Hogan -
To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began. If in one small degree it shows him where he can be...gentler, saner, cleaner, kindlier...it is a wonder-working book. If it opens his eyes to one beauty in nature he never saw for himself and leads him one step toward the God of the Universe, it is a beneficial book.
Gene Stratton-Porter -
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus -
How can you defame mud when such a beautiful flower grows from it?
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen -
Something had begun to emanate from Lila’s mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves.
Elena Ferrante
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I am interested in beauty. I think with beauty comes poetry, comes the lyrical. I think beauty is concerned with justice…
Nilo Cruz -
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
Sylvia Kristel -
So often we miss life’s beauty because we are preoccupied by its flaws.
Ann Spangler -
There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.
Coco Chanel -
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Rumi
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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 -
I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.
Ansel Adams -
There are so many kinds of beauty-have you ever looked in a small hidden pool in a wood, Becky? It's full of beauty, but it's not in the least spectacular, only restful and quiet and never-endingly fascinating.
Betty Neels -
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within this definition there can be no vain ornamentation or superfluity, but the part of beauty is nonetheless great-in ideal choice of material, in visual refinement, and in the rational elegance of things intended for use.
Eliot Noyes -
My thesis in terms of all my art is finding the beauty in the ugly truth. Just find the beauty in realism and what's there.
Nikki Jean -
...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face...
William Butler Yeats
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It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Raymond Chandler -
Beauty surrounds us.
Rumi -
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw -
I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.
Ed Gass-Donnelly