B Quotes
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“Beauty is a conversation between humankind and reality. . . .”
“Beauty is a conversation between humankind and reality, and we are an essential part of it, bringing to it our singular gifts of reflection and creation.”
Source: What Are We Doing Here?
“Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled to a nice day in my life but beauty creeps close to narcissism, which I really dislike, particularly in human beings who were born with good looks, who cash in on it. It's a bit of a dodgy word for me. I look at it with caution. It can be a bit like walking into quicksand; it can get you in to all kinds of trouble.”
“Beauty is a delightful prejudice.”
“Beauty is a fact, and it can change with time. Something ugly in the morning can become beautiful in the evening.”
“Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.”
Source: The Flower of Old Japan
“Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.”
“Beauty is a fateful gift of the essence of truth, and here truth means the disclosure of what keeps itself concealed. The beautiful is not what pleases, but what falls within that fateful gift of truth which comes to be when that which is eternally non-apparent and therefore invisible attains its most radiantly apparent appearance.”
Source: What is called thinking?
“Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Beauty is a fragile gift.”
“Beauty is a fragrant healer.”
“Beauty is a frail good.”
“Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Beauty is a full-time job.”
Source: The School for Good and Evil
“Beauty is a gift. Brain is a part of our body. It be great if someone has both ,so don't think without beauty u gain nothing and that's want of us relay on 'beauty' .so don't relay on something or someone to gain something”
“Beauty is a gift of God.”
“Beauty is a God-given talent that we should all conserve.”
Source: How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye
“Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.”
Source: Helen: A Tale
“Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.”
Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure
“Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.”
“Beauty is a heart with wings.”
“Beauty is a horrible power.”
“Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.”
“Beauty is a King that needs to be obeyed”
“Beauty is a liability. “Beauty will save the world,” but don’t tell the Trojans that. “Save the world? Beauty is tearing the world apart!” Any starry-eyed messiah quoting Dostoyevsky from the walls of Troy would have been pitched over. The beauty of Helen threw the cosmos out of whack. The beauty of Sarai jeopardized Abram’s trip into Egypt. So, too, a beautiful sunbather may upset the peace of a family trip to the beach and a beautiful priest might easily distract from mass or compromise confession.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Beauty is a life-long evolution.”
“Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.”
“Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.”
Source: The complete dying earth
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
“Beauty is a matter of finding the right address.”
“Beauty is a matter of perspective.
Darling keep in mind that those standards that you’re trying so hard to meet were made by imperfect beings themselves. Love yourself more.”
“Beauty is a mute deception.”
“Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles
“Beauty is a natural superiority.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.”
“Beauty is a parlour trick. It is in how you sit in the light. It is in how you turn your head and how you breathe.”
Source: Land of Love and Drowning
“Beauty is a part of education.”
“Beauty is a perilous gift.”
“Beauty is a physiological reaction. Beauty is not an object.”
“Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.”
Source: The Sense of Beauty
“Beauty is a possession not our own.”
“Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”
“Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.”
“Beauty is a radiance that orginates from within.”
“Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.”
“Beauty is a rebellion against time.”
“Beauty is a reflection of the soul; when you live authentically, your inner light illuminates your outer world. True beauty is not just seen, but felt by those who encounter your genuine self.”
Source: Guided Transformation: Poems, Quotes & Inspiration
“Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)