BEAUTY QUOTES III

quotations about beauty

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The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

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In our time, at all events, Beauty has never walked the streets with so frank a radiance, so confident an air of security, and in her eyes and in her carriage, as in her subtly shaped and subtly scented garments, so conspicuous a challenge to the musty, outworn, proprieties to frown upon her all they please.

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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Beauty is best when it comes mixed with danger.

SHERRILYN KENYON & DIANNA LOVE

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Let a young maiden, who would preserve her beauty, preserve the purity of soul, those sweet qualities of the mind, those virtues, in short, by which she first drew her lover to her feet.

T. S. ARTHUR

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

JEAN ANOUILH

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For admiration and personal love and youthful enjoyment, beauty of course is supreme; but as we cannot be always young nor always apt for pleasure, it is as well to provide for the days when the daughters of music shall be brought low and the years draw nigh which have no pleasure in them.

ELIZA LYNN LINTON

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We discern beauty in concrete objects and abstract ideas, in works of nature and works of art, in things, animals and people, in objects, qualities and actions. As the list expands to take in just about every ontological category (there are beautiful propositions as well as beautiful worlds, beautiful proofs as well as beautiful snails, even beautiful diseases and beautiful deaths), it becomes obvious that we are not describing a property like shape, size, or colour, uncontroversially present to all who can find their way around the physical world. For one thing: how could there be a single property exhibited by so many disparate types of thing?

ROGER SCRUTON

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I found a money back guarantee on a beauty cream. Rushed down to the store. They took one look at me and paid me in advance.

PHYLLIS DILLER

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Thus was beauty sent from heaven--the lovely mistress of truth and good in this dark world.

MARK AKENSIDE

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Every man values every acquisition he makes in the science of beauty, above his possessions. The most useful man in the most useful world, so long as only commodity was served, would remain unsatisfied. But, as fast as he sees beauty, life acquires a very high value.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

FULKE GREVILLE

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Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.

PLATO

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To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

GAIL CARSON LEVINE

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What is the beauty of bodies? It is something which at first view presents itself to sense, and which the soul familiarly apprehends and eagerly embraces, as if it were allied to itself. But when it meets with the deformed, it hastily starts from the view and retires abhorrent from its discordant nature.

PLOTINUS

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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

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Beauty, of course, is an asset. But the girls who have greenbacks don't have to worry over not having pink faces.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

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It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

FULKE GREVILLE

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Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,
Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.
Ah sweet, and sweet again, and seven times sweet,
The paces and the pauses of thy feet!
Ah sweeter than all sleep or summer air
The fallen fillets fragrant from thine hair!
Yea, though their alien kisses do me wrong,
Sweeter thy lips than mine with all their song;
Thy shoulders whiter than a fleece of white,
And flower-sweet fingers, good to bruise or bite
As honeycomb of the inmost honey-cells,
With almond-shaped and roseleaf-coloured shells
And blood like purple blossoms at the tips
Quivering; and pain made perfect in thy lips
For my sake when I hurt thee; O that I
Durst crush thee out of life with love, and die,
Die of thy pain and my delight, and be
Mixed with thy blood and molten into thee!

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

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Beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

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