beauty quotes

And all the loveliest things there be Come simply, so it seems to me.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Beauty without expression tires.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture.
- Bertrand Russell
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.
- John Ruskin
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
- Albert Camus
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Beauty is potent but money is omnipotent.
- Old saying
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Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- John Keats
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Ask a toad what is beauty? ... a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back.
- Voltaire
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
- William Hazlitt
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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As a beauty I am not a star, There are others more handsome by far, But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar.
- Anthony Euwer
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
- Marcel Proust
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
- John Ruskin
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
- Oscar Hammerstein
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Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
- Marianne Moore
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Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
- Sara Teasdale
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
- Jean Anouilh
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
- Michelangelo
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Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
- Leon Battista Alberti
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Underneath this stone doth lie As much beauty as could die.
- Ben Jonson
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon
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A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living colour.
- William Bolitho
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The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
- John Keats
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Exuberance is beauty.
- William Blake
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The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.
- Alice Walker
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- Margaret Hungerford
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
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Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.
- Rumi
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
- Goethe
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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
- Lord Shaftesbury
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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
- T. S. Eliot
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I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr
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The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
- Francis Quarles
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Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
- George Santayana
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
- Jean Anouilh
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- John Keats
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When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.
- Timothy Ray Miller
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we will not find it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Lady Blessington
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
- Ninon de L'Enclos
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Kahlil Gibran
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Keats Endymion
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
- John Keats
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She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
- Lord Byron
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
- Charles Reade
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
- John Ruskin
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