925 private quotes tagged beauty

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

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“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.” — Groucho Marx

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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 are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.” — Arthur Helps

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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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“Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.” — Alicia Machado

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