B Quotes
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“Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.”
“Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.”
Source: The Republic: A Socratic Dialogue Concerning the Definition of Justice and the Order and Character of the Just City-State and the Just Man (Beloved Books Edition)
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.”
Source: The Republic and Other Works
“Beauty of the body fades away in time, but beauty of the mind is timeless.”
“Beauty of trees is not judged by shape, size and species, then why ours?”
“Beauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. [...] I asked myself—“Of all melancholy topics what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?” Death, was the obvious reply. “And when,” I said, “is this most melancholy of topics most poetical?” From what I have already explained at some length the answer here also is obvious—“When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.”
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales
“Beauty of your love-filled smile created a mark on the stone wall of my heart, I can erase it never.”
“Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“Beauty, on the other hand, is always on this side. It is in this world, in the present, firm; it can be touched with the hand. That our sexual appetites can taste it is beauty's precondition. Sensuality is, therefore, essential. It confirms beauty. However, beauty can never be reached, because the susceptibilities of sense, more than anything else, block attainment of it. The method by which the Greeks expressed beauty through sculpture was a wise one. I am a novelist. Of all the rubbish that has been invented in the modern times, the profession I have chosen is the worst. Don't you think that for the expression of beauty it is the most bungling and low-class of professions?”
Source: Forbidden Colors
“Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.”
“Beauty only happens once.”
“Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.”
“Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.”
Source: The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style
“Beauty or meaning is not intrinsic too suffering. But if you can take the suffering and find the parts that are funny or profound, you can curate your world into something that might be entertaining for someone for a while. Eventually, maybe, that time will have been useful. More useful than, like, working in a bank.”
Source: Problems
“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.”
“beauty pertains with everyone. It's just the perception that defines the differences.”
“Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.”
Source: Pale fire
“Beauty plus pity-that is the closest we can get to a definition of art. Where there is beauty there is pity for the simple reason that beauty must die: beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.”
Source: Lectures on Literature
“Beauty popularity is something that can happen to a person very easily and not last for a long time. However, dignity and honor is something a person can earn from the community through hard work which his or her legacy can last for a long period of time.”
“Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.”
“Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?”
“Beauty promises recognition, connection, and loftiness. It invites us to soar and transcend. Beauty lends magnitude to our lives, but we feel dislocated if we miss sense and substance. Its absence is like a fall from grace. Beauty is one of the last refuges against emptiness. Without it, we become void drifters in a barren world. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“ )”
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
Source: The Beauty Myth
“Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.”
“Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.”
“Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“Beauty remains,pain ends up passing”
“Beauty resides not just in perfection, but in the authenticity of the imperfect.”
“Beauty rests on necessities.”
Source: Culture, Behavior, Beauty
“Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.”
“Beauty rises ...from a place of tenderness...for it is what pushes a human.... to be humane....”
“Beauty's a role that's also an identity. You can't take it off when you get home and, even if it's not your job, it's a role you're always working: a second shift that may as well be a second career.”
Source: My Life as a Godard Movie
“Beauty’s not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful
doesn’t mean there’s no soul beneath. Doesn’t mean
that person hasn’t suffered like everyone else, doesn’t mean
they don’t hope to still be a good human being in an awful
world. (Gabriel)”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
“Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underneath.
Acting right is better than looking right.
Realize what make you special beyond looks.
Evil can look pretty on the outside.”
Source: 13 to Life
“Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.”
“Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.”
“Beauty scatters the seeds of hope in us.”
“Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.”
“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”
Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier
“Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.”
“Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.”
“Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“Beauty, she realised as her heart hammered, was not social or subjective. True beauty was catastrophic, irresistible as the rushing tides, crashing over and through all feeble attempts to say what was fair and what was not. Like the woodland vista that made the breath catch and the spirit soar, beauty was an irresistible force of nature, and to try to tell which particular branch – which particular leaf – was most appealing was to miss the forest for the trees.
No single thing she saw in Lady Ceistyl was more beautiful than any other. Nor could the fey be reduced to separate features, complimented on any one part. And even were Elly to try, no words were rich enough, no paint held hues that could capture the colour Lady Ceistyl brought with her as she appeared beside the watching wolf atop the fallen log.”
Source: Song of the Wild Knight – Part One: Song of the Squire
“Beauty should be edible, or not at all.”
“Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.”
“Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys.
To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.”
“Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.”