Beauty Quotes - Page 14

• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

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• The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

  Joan Collins

  Age, Getting High, Problem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Life, Beautiful, Women

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• When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

  Akhenaton

  Beautiful, Stars, Heaven

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Mistake, Confused

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• Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Art, Expression, Ideas

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• A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Inspirational, Strength, Romantic

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• I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, Men, Giving

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• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Perception, Tests

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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• Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ambition, Goal, Taste

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• There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

  Loretta Young

  Beautiful, Achievement, Born

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• Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

  Bliss Carman

  Eye, Giving, Horizon

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• Beauty crowds me till I die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Crowds, Dies

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1934, Delphi Classics

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• As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

  Annie Dillard

  Love, Religion, Pleasure

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• The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Eye, Half, Fancy

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• The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

  Philip James Bailey

  Beautiful, Men, Abandon

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.50

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• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  Langston Hughes

  Nature, Fall, Sunset

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• But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

  William Wycherley

  Thinking, Ugly, Handsome

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

  Paul Klee

  Beautiful, Dark, Light

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.102, Parkstone International

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• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Beautiful, God

  Metropolitan Life "Manners" (1978)

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• Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

  Roger Scruton

  Clouds, Fleeting, Pearls

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• She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Family, Fathers Day

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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

  Order, Joy, May

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• A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

  Helen Rowland

  Inspirational, Single, Boys

  A Guide to Men "Bachelors" (1922)

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• What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Beautiful, Women, Good Will

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