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Beauty Quotes

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"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."
Tom Stoppard
"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."
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"Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power."
Jean Paul
"Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power."
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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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"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
Edmund Burke
"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
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"Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."
Amanda Peet
"Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."
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"A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works."
Rudolf Otto
"A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works."
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"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."
Walt Whitman
"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."
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"Beauty is being in harmony with what you are."
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"Beauty is being in harmony with what you are."
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"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."
George Santayana
"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."
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"Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love."
Billy Ocean
"Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love."
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"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."
W. Somerset Maugham
"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."
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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
David Hockney
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
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"No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight."
Jean Toomer
"No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight."
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"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."
Mike Krzyzewski
"To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless."
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"I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."
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"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."
Edmund Waller
"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."
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"You're beautiful, like a May fly."
Ernest Hemingway
"You're beautiful, like a May fly."
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"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
Manuel Puig
"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
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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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"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."
Sydney J. Harris
"The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."
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"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
Anne Frank
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
Jean Genet
"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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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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"So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing."
Michael Stipe
"So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing."
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"Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that."
Cindy Margolis
"Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that."
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"Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it."
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"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."
Francesca da Rimini
"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."
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"That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me."
Kevyn Aucoin
"That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me."
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"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty."
Alfred Jarry
"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty."
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"Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it."
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"So many things become beautiful when you really look."
Lauren Oliver
"So many things become beautiful when you really look."
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"To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into rhetoric and plot."
Elizabeth Gilbert
"To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business-not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into rhetoric and plot."
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"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
Charles Lamb
"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."
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"If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world."
Amit Kalantri
"If beauty had religious and spiritual importance, there would have been your temples all around the world."
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"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis."
Andrea Dworkin
"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis."
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"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."
Michel de Montaigne
"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."
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"Every woman has the right to be beautiful."
Elizabeth Arden
"Every woman has the right to be beautiful."
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"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing."
Marie Carmichael Stopes
"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing."
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"People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them."
Judith Jamison
"People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them."
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"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."
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"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
H. G. Wells
"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
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"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
George William Russell
"Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see."
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"There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see."
Vera Brittain
"There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see."
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"Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly."
James De La Vega
"Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly."
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"If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully."
Matthew Fox
"If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully."
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"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."
June Jordan
"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."
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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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"One may live without bread, not without roses."
Jean Richepin
"One may live without bread, not without roses."
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"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."
Richard Steele
"Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
George Bernard Shaw
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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