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Beauty Quotes

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"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
Leo Tolstoy
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
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"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."
Charlie Chaplin
"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."
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"I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner."
Jude Law
"I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner."
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"When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out."
Christy Turlington
"When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out."
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"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
Robert Mapplethorpe
"Beauty and the devil are the same thing."
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"It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton."
Charles Baudelaire
"It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton."
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"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
Colleen Atwood
"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."
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"Goodness is beauty in the best estate."
Christopher Marlowe
"Goodness is beauty in the best estate."
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"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
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"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
Friedrich Schiller
"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
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"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
Socrates
"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
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"From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers."
Lucretius
"From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers."
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"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."
Walter Pater
"What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."
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"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
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"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."
Annie Dillard
"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker."
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"Ashryver eyes.The fairest eyes, from legends oldof brightest, ringed with gold."
Sarah J. Maas
"Ashryver eyes.The fairest eyes, from legends oldof brightest, ringed with gold."
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"Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted."
John Steinbeck
"Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted."
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"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."
Charles Churchill
"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense."
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"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
Francis Bacon
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
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"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
Petrarch
"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
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"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
David Allan Coe
"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."
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"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
Wislawa Szymborska
"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
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"Integrity reveals beauty."
Thomas Leonard
"Integrity reveals beauty."
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"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
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"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."
Rem Koolhaas
"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."
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"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
Candice Bergen
"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"Beauty is less important than quality."
Eugene Ormandy
"Beauty is less important than quality."
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"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
Stephen Hawking
"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
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"As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained."
Arthur Cayley
"As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained."
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"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
Edmund Waller
"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"
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"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web."
Edwin Way Teale
"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web."
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"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
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"It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress."
Paul Dirac
"It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress."
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"I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie."
Allison Janney
"I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie."
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"This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended."
Pam Grier
"This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended."
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"So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology."
Michael K. Powell
"So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology."
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"Beauty is not caused. It is."
Emily Dickinson
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
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"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
Nadine Gordimer
"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
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"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
Saint Sequoyah
"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
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"I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy."
Teri Hatcher
"I'm 40 and I just got my first beauty campaign with Clairol Nice and Easy."
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"Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look."
Martha Beck
"Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look."
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"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."
Robert Caro
"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."
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"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
Michelangelo
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
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"I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance."
Pam Grier
"I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance."
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"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."
George Jean Nathan
"Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry."
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"You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it."
Edward James Olmos
"You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it."
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"Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true."
Delta Burke
"Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true."
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"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
Bob Dylan
"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."
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"In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!"
Joel McHale
"In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!"
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