925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.” — Timothy Radcliffe

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“I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.” — Courtney Love

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“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.” — Christopher Marlowe

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“This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.” — Tom Wolfe

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“Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.” — Lindsay Wagner

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“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.” — Euripides

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“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?” — Lily Tomlin

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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.” — John Keats

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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.” — Louisa May Alcott

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“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.” — Stephen King

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“A women's greatest asset is her beauty.” — Alex Comfort

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“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.” — Johnny Depp

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“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.” — Jean Ingelow

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“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.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” — Sophia Loren

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“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“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.” — Richard Cecil

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“It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” — Walter Hagen

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“Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.” — Frank Miller

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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” — Benjamin Britten

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“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” — Chanakya

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“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” — Bob Dylan

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“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.” — Jean Paul

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“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” — Audrey Hepburn

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