“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”
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“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.”
“What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?”
“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.”
“Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.”
“People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.”
“A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.”
“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.”
“Rare is the union of beauty and purity.”
“The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
“A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.”
“Beauty has a lot to do with character.”
“For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.”
“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
“I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.”
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
“Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.”
“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
“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.”
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”