925 private quotes tagged beauty

“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.” — Alexander McQueen

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“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.” — Rashida Jones

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“Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.” — Edward Gibbon

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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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“I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.” — Tia Mowry

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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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“It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.” — Danica McKellar

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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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“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.” — Sarah Bernhardt

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“Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.” — Vernon Howard

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“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” — David Attenborough

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“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.” — Anna Quindlen

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“The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.” — Sallust

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“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” — Auguste Renoir

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“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.” — Annie Dillard

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“Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.” — Martha Beck

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“Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.” — Neil Gaiman

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“When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.” — Annie Lennox

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“The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.” — Imelda Marcos

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“Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.” — King Hussein I

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“It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.” — Imelda Marcos

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“Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.” — Rashida Jones

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“Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.” — Martha Beck

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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.” — Bryant H. McGill

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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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