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Beauty Quotes



"Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once."


"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."


"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."


"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."


"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."



"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."



"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."


"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."


"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."


"Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve."


"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."


"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."


"The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!"


"She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body."


"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."


"Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man."



"The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance."



"Cosette, by learning that she was beautiful, lost the grace of not knowing it; an exquisite grace, for beauty heightened by artlessness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as dazzling innocence, going on her way, and holding in her hand, all unconsciousness, the key of a paradise."


"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."


"The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired."



"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."
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