925 private quotes tagged beauty

“I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.” — Jane Smiley

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“I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.” — Rachel Stevens

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“Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?” — Tony Kushner

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“And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.” — Joan Collins

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“I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things - that's the beauty of fashion.” — Leighton Meester

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“I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.” — Halle Berry

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“She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.” — Christina Rossetti

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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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“Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.” — Tahar Ben Jelloun

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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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“Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.” — Beth Ditto

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“I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.” — Robert Caro

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“Beauty can come in strange forms.” — James Dyson

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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, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.” — Sara Teasdale

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“Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.” — Paul Klee

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“Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.” — George Henry Lewes

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“A representative is free delivery she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch.” — Andrea Jung

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“I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.” — Tom Ford

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“The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.” — Alberto Korda

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“The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!” — Andrea Jung

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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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“What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.” — Joseph Brodsky

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“The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.” — Murray Kempton

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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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