Beauty Quotes - Page 22

• I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.

  John Vance Cheney

  Dream, Tents, World

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• Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beautiful, Fashion, Sacrifice

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.164

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• It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Angel, Heaven, Peter

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• The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

  Pablo Casals

  Beautiful, Women, Musical

  "Contemporary Hispanic Quotations" edited by Daniel E. Stanton, Edward F. Stanton, Greenwood Publishing Group, (p. 35), 2003.

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• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Beautiful, Nature, Confused

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• Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Memories, Men, Speak

  Traffics and Discoveries "Mrs. Bathurst" (1904)

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• Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

  Ivana Trump

  Revenge, Hair, Gorgeous

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• The beautiful is always severe.

  Joseph Alexandre Pierre de Segur, Viscount of Segur

  Beautiful, Severe

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• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

  Thornton Wilder

  Evil, World, Bent

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• There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Art, Excellence, Doe

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• . . . for beauty stands
  In the admiration only of weak minds
  Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
  Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
  At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

  John Milton

  Fall, Mind, Toys

  John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Sex, Intuition

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Funny, Witty, Forever

  Judy Sheindlin (1999). “Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever: The Making of a Happy Woman”, Harper

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• But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?...aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Mistake, Flower

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• Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Curves, Sight

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• Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Philosophical, Healing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  Beautiful, Men, Sight

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• If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.

  Owen Feltham

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.89

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• An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

  Edmund Burke

  Essentials, Fragility, Delicacy

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.121

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• If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Funny, Humor, Accepted

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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.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Lying, Sky

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

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• Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

  Rumi

  Brother, Pain, Learning

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• A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

  George Meredith

  Witty, Treasure, Housework

  'Diana of the Crossways' (1885) ch. 1

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• Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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