925 private quotes tagged beauty

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.” — William Blake

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“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” — Francis Bacon

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“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.” — Michelangelo

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“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.” — Victor Hugo

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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.” — André Gide

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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” — Socrates

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“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” — Victor Hugo

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“Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.” — Socrates

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“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Edmund Burke

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“Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.” — Francis Bacon

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“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” — Maya Angelou

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“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.” — Victor Hugo

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“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” — Franz Kafka

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“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.” — Anouk Aimee

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“Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.” — Candice Bergen

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“What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.” — Albrecht Durer

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“A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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