925 private quotes tagged beauty

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

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“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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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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“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Beauty has a lot to do with character.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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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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“I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.” — Emile Zola

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“Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.” — Priscilla Presley

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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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“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.” — Joanne Woodward

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

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“Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.” — Joseph Joubert

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“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.” — Joseph Addison

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“I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.” — Imelda Marcos

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“Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.” — Tyra Banks

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“People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?” — Imelda Marcos

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“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.” — Galileo Galilei

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