925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Goodness is beauty in the best estate.” — Christopher Marlowe

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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

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“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.” — Milan Kundera

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“We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.” — Ellsworth Huntington

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“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” — John Keats

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“Beauty is less important than quality.” — Eugene Ormandy

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“I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.” — Kirsten Dunst

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“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.” — Albrecht Durer

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“Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.” — Candice Bergen

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“How goodness heightens beauty!” — Milan Kundera

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“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.” — Loretta Young

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“Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.” — Rosalind Russell

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“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.” — Robert Browning

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“I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.” — Celine Dion

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“Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“I am a thing of beauty.” — Frank Sinatra

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“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” — Henry Rollins

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“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Beauty is only skin deep.” — Thomas Overbury

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“You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.” — Tadao Ando

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“You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.” — Dan Hawkins

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“I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.” — Jennifer Aniston

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“There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.” — Anna Katharine Green

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