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Beauty Quotes


"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."


"The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are."


"You can never lose anything. You only gain the moment of beauty like a bud transforms into a flower."


"If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous."


"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."


"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."


"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."


"One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons."


"What is your substance, whereof are you made,That millions of strange shadows on you tend?Since everyone hath every one, one shade,And you, but one, can every shadow lend.Describe Adonis, and the counterfeitIs poorly imitated after you.On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,And you in Grecian tires are painted new.Speak of the spring and foison of the year;The one doth shadow of your beauty show,The other as your bounty doth appear,And you in every blessA d shape we know.In all external grace you have some part,But you like none, none you, for constant heart."


"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."


"It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton."


"In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry."


"How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty."


"It was the kind of moonthat I would want to send back to my ancestorsand gift to my descendantsso they know that I too,have been bruised...by beauty."


"I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men."


"Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything."


"The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty."


"No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful."


"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."


"She made beauty all round her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes - the toad became beautiful."



"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."


"It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them."


"How beautiful it is to be stress free and bloom slowly like a flower."


"Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that."
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