925 private quotes tagged beauty

“San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.” — H. G. Wells

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“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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“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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“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” — Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.” — 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 bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.” — Socrates

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

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

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

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

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“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.” — Robert Browning

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“A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.” — George Meredith

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“Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.” — Rosalind Russell

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“Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.” — Loretta Young

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