925 private quotes tagged beauty

“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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“In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.” — Vladimir Kramnik

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“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.” — George Santayana

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“If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

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“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.” — E. M. Forster

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“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.” — John Keats

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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

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“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.” — Whitney Houston

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“I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

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“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.” — John Donne

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“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.” — E. M. Forster

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“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.” — John Keats

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“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.” — Charles Baudelaire

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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.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.” — Miley Cyrus

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“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.” — Redd Foxx

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“Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.” — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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“A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.” — Oliver Stone

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“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.” — John Keats

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“There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.” — William Hazlitt

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“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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