925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.” — John Milton

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“Black beauty - he's a dark horse.” — Tim Vine

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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” — Thomas Mann

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“What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.” — Hu Shih

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“Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.” — Miuccia Prada

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“The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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“I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.” — Miuccia Prada

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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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“For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.” — Thomas Mann

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“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” — Robert Browning

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“Physical beauty is such a strange thing.” — Jock Sturges

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“I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.” — Meryl Streep

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“Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.” — Gustav Mahler

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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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“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.” — Jack London

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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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“Beauty is not just physical.” — Halle Berry

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“They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.” — Lillie Langtry

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“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.” — Robert Mapplethorpe

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“Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.” — Gabrielle Union

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“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.” — Rachel McAdams

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“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.” — Thornton Wilder

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“I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.” — Diane Kruger

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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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