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Beauty Quotes


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


"Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly."


"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."


"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."


"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."


"The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars."


"The voice of beauty speaks softly, it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls."


"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"


"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet possessed, it cannot be handled. -It instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time."


"Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!"


"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."


"Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?"


"The most beautiful thing that you can show people is how to reveal their own beauty to themselves."


"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."


"Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos."


"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."


"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."


"I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?"


"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose."


"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."


"If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning."


"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."


"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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