B Quotes
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“Beauty within itself should not be wasted.”
“Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.”
Source: The tale of Genji: a novel
“Beauty without elegance is a half beauty; elegance without beauty is still a full beauty!”
“Beauty without expression is boring.”
“Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you.”
“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”
Source: Nature and Other Essays
“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”
“Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.”
“Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.”
“Beauty works perfect miracles. All inner shortcomings in a beauty, instead of causing repugnance, become somehow extraordinarily attractive; vice itself breathes comeliness in them; but if it were to disappear, then a woman would have to be twenty times more intelligent than a man in order to inspire, if not love, at least respect.”
Source: The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
“Beauty would save the world.”
Source: The Idiot (Vintage Classics)
“Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.”
Source: Nevernight
“Beauty! Terrible Beauty! A deathless Goddess-- so she strikes our eyes!”
Source: Homer in English
“Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!”
Source: The Grave: A Poem
“Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.”
Source: The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
“Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.”
“Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty.”
“Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!”
Source: The Caledonian Musical Museum: Being a Collection of the Best Songs, Ancient and Modern
“Beauty's where you find it; not just where you bump and grind it.”
“Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With an Original Biography, and Notes
“Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.”
“Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.”
“Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.”
“Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.”
“Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.”
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.”
Source: An Anthology
“Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.”
“Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.”
“Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.”
Source: Lara
“Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.”
Source: The Renaissance
“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”
“Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.”
“Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.”
“Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown;
Both most are valued where they best are known.”
“Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.”
“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.”
Source: Two Or Three Things I Know for Sure
“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.”
“Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only exist, by reason of contrast.”
“Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.”
“Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.”
Source: ... Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette
“Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.”
“Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.”
Source: Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc
“Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.”
“Beauty, the smile of God, Music, His voice.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1881-1919
“Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)
“Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.”
“Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.”