B Quotes
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“Beauty is indeed a good gift of the gods; but that the good may not think it a great good, the gods dispense it even to the wicked. The same can me said for wisdom.”
“Beauty is instantly more than doubled—ugliness, more than halved—by the mere act of smiling.”
“Beauty is intellectually confusing; it sabotages common sense.”
Source: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
“Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Beauty is its own excuse.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.”
“Beauty is less important than quality.”
“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
Source: The Prophet
“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Beauty is light set free.”
“Beauty is light within.”
“Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.”
“Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.”
“Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.”
Source: The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus
“Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.”
“beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.”
Source: The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…
“Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.”
Source: The Heart of The Matter
“Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.”
“Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.”
Source: Burmese Days
“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.”
Source: Report to Greco
“Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.”
“Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.”
“Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.”
Source: The Chemickal Marriage
“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.”
“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.”
“Beauty is more popular than virtues because it is more visible than virtues.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.”
“Beauty is more than perfect features, Birdy. There's something about you that draws everyone to you, the way flowers turn toward the sun. You walk into a room and the place comes alive. You are beautiful, Birdy. All the more so because you don't even realize it.”
Source: The Imposter
“Beauty is more than skin deep.”
“Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.”
“Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.”
“Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion.”
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov (卡拉馬助夫兄弟們)
“Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid temples, the huckleberry pie, the wedding ring, the circus ring, the ring for the waiter, and the "round" of drinks.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)
“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.”
“Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.”
“Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.”
“Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.”
Source: The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet
“Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.”
“Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.”
Source: THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE
“Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.”
“Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.”
Source: Pictures of Europe, Framed in Ideas
“Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
“Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.”
“Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.”
Source: On Writing
“Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted.
It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a win attached to a claw,
But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
Source: The Prophet
“Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Beauty is not a quality on the observed. It is a reaction in the observer.”