925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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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“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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“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.” — Virginia Woolf

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“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” — Christopher Morley

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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 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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“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.” — Christian Dior

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“As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.” — Idina Menzel

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“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire

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

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“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.” — James Dean

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

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“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?” — Sarah Bernhardt

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“First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.” — Gustav Stickley

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

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“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.” — Christopher Morley

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“I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.” — Rachel Roy

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“If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.” — Matthew Fox

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“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.” — Conrad Hall

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“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.” — Goldwin Smith

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“The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.” — Thomas B. Macaulay

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“I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.” — Zoe Saldana

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