B Quotes
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“Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.”
“Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.”
“Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.”
“Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.”
Source: Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God
“Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.”
Source: Rosamond. Cato. The drummer, or The haunted house. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The lover
“Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.”
“Beauty stands and waits
with gravity
to start her death-defying leap”
Source: A Coney Island of the Mind
“Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.”
Source: Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books
“Beauty stems from the mind.”
“beauty such as theirs was something with which one lived joyously — racing with the wind, with storm and snow, dancing in the frost or among the golden wattles, galloping, galloping in the spring sun. Life might be dangerous, with beauty that was so difficult to hide, but life was always and ever had been very, very good”
Source: Silver Brumby's Daughter
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Beauty surrounds us.”
“Beauty that arose out of pain.”
Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy
“Beauty that comes naturally, is the most natural beauty of all.”
“Beauty that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of pleasing the heart can endure endlessly.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...
“Beauty thinks it needs no talent and can feed on itself, so it soon dies.”
Source: Petals on the wind
“Beauty Tips - How to Look Younger: Don't be born so soon.”
“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
Source: Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.”
“Beauty to me is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty comes in all different shapes, sizes, looks, qualities, but I truly believe that everybody is beautiful in their own way.”
“Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.”
Source: The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side
“Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.”
Source: Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings
“Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.”
“Beauty transcends sight; it is felt in the heart and seen with the spirit.”
“Beauty type or hair styles constantly evolve through time. Hence, a woman shouldn't be reduced to the current trends.”
“Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.”
“Beauty walks a razors edge, someday I'll make it mine.”
“Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.”
Source: The Countess
“Beauty was deceiving in the same way credit cards were. It felt like it was free, but there was high interest with little return.”
Source: Atheists Who Kneel and Pray
“Beauty was deceptive. I would rather wear my pain, my ugliness. I was torn and stitched. I was a strip mine, and they would just have to look. I hoped I made them sick. I hoped they saw me in their dreams.”
Source: White Oleander
“Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.”
Source: White Oleander
“Beauty was expected,” Grayson replied. “Technique without artistry is
worthless.” He looked down at the remains of the violin he’d destroyed.
“Beauty is a lie.”
Source: The Final Gambit
“Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?”
“Beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty — it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life — froze it.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
“Beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and as lawless as it had been eons before man had a single coherent thought in his head.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“Beauty was so heavily important in my family, something I had to contend with. All those experiences allow me to make what I'm making today. I grew up with that. There's a reason why I express that in my art. I'm trying to figure it out myself.”
“Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.”
Source: Red Mars
“Beauty was thinking of all she had heard and seen, stimulated against her will by Laurent’s suffering.”
Source: Beauty's Punishment
“Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized to it, the intelligentsia regarded it with suspicion. To most of her peers, 'beauty' smacked of the rarefied, the indulgent, the superfluous, the effete. How could persons of good conscience pursue the beautiful when there was so much suffering and injustice in the world? Ellen Cherry's answer was that if one didn't cultivate beauty, soon he or she wouldn't be able to recognize ugliness. The prevalence of social ugliness made commitment to physical beauty all the more essential. And the very presence in life of double-wide mobile homes, Magic Marker graffiti, and orange shag carpeting had the effect of making ills such as poverty, crime, repression, pollution, and child abuse seem tolerable. In a sense, beauty was the ultimate protest, and, in that it generally lasted longer than an orgasm, the ultimate refuge. The Venus de Milo screamed 'No!' at evil, whereas the Spandex stretch pant, the macrame plant holder were compliant with it. Ugly bedrooms bred ugly habits. Of course, it wasn't required of beauty that it perform a social function. That was what was valuable about it.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.”
“Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.”
“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
“Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.”
“Beauty will not define me. I will define beauty.”
“BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.”
“Beauty will save the world”
Source: The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
“Beauty with character ages better than perfection.”