Beauty Quotations
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. |
| - Roseanne Barr |
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| One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will. |
| - Rachel Carson |
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| There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. |
| - Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
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| Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. |
| - Confucius |
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| Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. |
| - George Eliot |
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| Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. |
| - Ralph Ellison |
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| Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. |
| - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. |
| - Garrison Keillor |
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| I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? |
| - Jean Kerr |
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| A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. |
| - Karl Kraus |
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| That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. |
| - Ninon de Lenclos |
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| In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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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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| Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. |
| - Pablo Picasso |
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| When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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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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| Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. |
| - John Ruskin |
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| I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! |
| - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. |
| - Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. |
| - Tertullian |
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| It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. |
| - Leo Tolstoy |
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| A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. |
| - Walt Whitman |
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