B Quotes
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“Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.”
Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author
“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.”
“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
“Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.”
“Beauty is objectified pleasure.”
“Beauty is often a woman's currency. I have no doubt she will display hers. And I will display mine too. And if that distracts her from the rest of me, if she thinks I am a pretty trinket at first, then she will underestimate me to my advantage. And if instead she sees the power I possess immediately, then that's good too.”
Source: Traveling with Gentlemen
“Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story.”
Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.”
“Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.”
“Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you...Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed...Ah! realise your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar...Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing...The world belongs to you for a season...how tragic it would be if you were wasted. For there is such a little time that your youth will last. The common hillflowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth. The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty, becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to...Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.”
“Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.”
“Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.”
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time!”
“Beauty is only skin deep.”
“Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.”
“Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.”
“Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.”
“Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.”
“Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.”
“Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it.”
“Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature
“Beauty is our business.”
“Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.”
“Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.”
Source: Romola
“Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.”
“Beauty is perhaps the greatest emotion man is capable of. Beauty is that place where the material world meets the divine spirit world.”
“Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.”
Source: Red Mars
“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”
“Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.”
“Beauty is present in all creation, but the danger lies in the fact that we allow ourselves to be influenced by what people think. We deny our own beauty because others can't or won't recognize it. We try to imitate what we see around us. We try to be what other people think of as 'pretty' & little by little, our soul fades. We forget the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.”
“Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.”
Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Source: The Secret History
“Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.”
“Beauty is reaching for you if you you will hold out your hand in good faith.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Beauty is real. I would never deny it; the appalling thing is that I forget it.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“Beauty is really all about confidence. If you feel beautiful, then you are beautiful.”
“Beauty is revealed when we learn to see with our hearts. The more educated our hearts the greater beauty we can see. Therefore, beauty is revealed with age.”
“Beauty is scandalous sir! It takes away a man's reason and cedes him unreasonable fervor. For you see sir! A man profligate as me; has found in this destitution
that a reasonable man is more likely to lead a
content life. That's the best a man can be sir, content.
Especially an eternally dejected man, such as myself.
Who has lost his ability to be pleased.”
“Beauty is seen through the eyes, but beautiful people are only known through their heart.”
“Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.”
“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”
“Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.”
“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.”
Source: Les Diaboliques
“Beauty is skin-deep, young man.”
Source: Palace Intrigue
“Beauty is so rare a th—
Sing a new song
Real
Music
A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A
Visiting card
— from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958]”