Quotes about beauty

"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."

Addison, Joseph on beauty
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"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence."

Allen, James on beauty
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"What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity."

Andre, Father on beauty   

"Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

Aristotle on beauty
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"Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness."

Aristotle on beauty
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"Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone."

Arnim, Mary on beauty
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"I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!"

Augustine, St. on beauty   

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

Bacon, Francis on beauty
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"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

Bacon, Francis on beauty
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"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."

Bancroft, George on beauty
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"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite."

Bancroft, George on beauty   

"I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation."

Banks, Tyra on beauty
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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."

Bataille, Georges on beauty   

"All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty."

Baudelaire, Charles on beauty
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"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."

Baudelaire, Charles on beauty
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"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."

Bejar, Hada on beauty
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"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."

Benjamin, Walter on beauty   

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

Bernstein, Al on beauty
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"I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]"

Berry, Halle on beauty   

"Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]"

Bible on beauty   

"Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."

Bierce, Ambrose on beauty
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"Exuberance is beauty."

Blake, William on beauty
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"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of on beauty
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"Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on beauty   

"The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on beauty
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"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."

Breton, Andre on beauty
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"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can."

Brown, Helen Gurley on beauty
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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on beauty
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"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on beauty
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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."

Camus, Albert on beauty
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"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd."

Camus, Albert on beauty   

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."

Dante Alighieri on beauty
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"Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!"

Delaney, Bessie on beauty   

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

Dillard, Annie on beauty
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"It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty."

Eliot, George on beauty
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"There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you."

Eliot, George on beauty
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