Beauty Quotes - Page 25

• Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hammers, Rubies

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

  A. Y. Jackson

  Beautiful, Knowing, Found

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• Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

  Simone Weil

  Pretty Girl, Giving, Beautiful Women

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.29, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  World, Flesh

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• Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Balance, World, Magnificence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1084, Library of America

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• Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

  David Byrne

  Real, Littles, Imperfect

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• Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

  Richard Cecil

  Beautiful, Years, Evil

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• Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.

  Thomas Adams

  Years, Lasts, Wells

  Thomas Adams (1862). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.3

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• Beauty is the flower of virtue.

  Plutarch

  Flower, Virtue

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.3173, Delphi Classics

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• Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Ethics, Goodness, Estates

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• The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

  Christina Aguilera

  Beautiful, Wish, Female

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• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

  Emily Mortimer

  Beautiful, Girl, Children

  "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Poetry, World, Veils

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions

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• If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Nature, Mental Health

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from London, vangoghletters.org. April 30, 1874.

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• Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Taste, Epoch

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• We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Giving, Affection

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• It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

  Kevin Spacey

  Mad, World, Janie

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• Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Life Is

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• The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Honesty, Life And Love

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• Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Source, Source Of Happiness, Chiefs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1976). “The Works: Lothair ; 1”

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• Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hungry, Show Me, Shows

  "Poem for a Lady Whose Voice I Like" l. 20 (1970)

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• Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beautiful, Men, Twins

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

  Pope Gregory I

  Bible, God, Christian

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• The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Eye

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.43, Routledge

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• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

  Jean Kerr

  Beautiful, Tired, Adorable

  The Snake Has All the Lines (1958)

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