925 private quotes tagged beauty

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” — Francis Bacon

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“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.” — Michelangelo

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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Edmund Burke

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“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.” — André Gide

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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” — Victor Hugo

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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” — Socrates

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“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.” — Socrates

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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” — Maya Angelou

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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” — Victor Hugo

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“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.” — Francis Bacon

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“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” — Franz Kafka

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

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“I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.” — Diane Wakoski

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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” — Max Eastman

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