925 private quotes tagged beauty

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

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“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.” — Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Things are beautiful if you love them.” — Jean Anouilh

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