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“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”

“Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.”

Beauty Laughing Distinction

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.”

Art Beauty Effects Charm Unconscious

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”

Needs Law Perfect Beauty Kindness Praise Modesty Loving Kindness Perfect Beauty

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!”

Use Girl Beauty Fortune

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.”

“Beauty is its own excuse.”

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“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.”

World Way Mean Form Results Beauty

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.”

People Inspirational Eye Beautiful Beauty Fashion Findings Expected Opening Expecting Fashion Designer Eye Opening Opening Your Eyes

Author:Jean Paul Gaultier

“While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.”

Wells Beautiful Song Next Known Beauty Air Next Day Well Known

Book:The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid

Source: The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid

“I choose to paint beauty.”

Author:Igor Babailov

“In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.”

World Should Has Beens Beautiful Lost Wish Nature Freedom Animal Beauty Species Harm Swim Swimming Dolphins Animal Liberation Wild And Free Animal Kingdom

Author:Ric O'Barry

“He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.”

Beauty Wings Dread Dazzling Wanderers Unforeseen Foreseen

Book:Mythologies

Source: Mythologies

“All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.”

Beautiful Beauty Sadness Poet Sweet Longing Awake Beautiful Things Wisest Sweet Music

Author:Richard Chenevix Trench

“After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.”

Turns Wonder Beauty Revelations Contemplating Rest Of Your Life Turn-on

Book:Your Brain Is God

Source: Your Brain Is God

“Beauty draws more than oxen.”

Beauty Draws Oxen

Book:The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].

“Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.”

Eye Beautiful Heaven Beauty Raised

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician.”

Ifs Beauty Track Our Family Relief Application Physicians Therapeutic

Author:Pamela Anderson

“An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.”

Quality Beauty Essentials Aloofness

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Beauty is the attractive power of perfection.”

Beauty Perfection Attractive

Author:Ananda Coomaraswamy

“Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.”

Beautiful Found Beauty Knowing Conventions Toms Not Knowing

Author:A. Y. Jackson

“What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?”

Heart Stills Eye Beauty Sweet Hunger Oppression Ease

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“Beauty can never really understand itself.”

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”

Knows Beauty Blood Gentle

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)

“Beauty is objectified pleasure.”

Pleasure Beauty

Author:George Santayana

“Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!”

Beauty Gone Seasons Fading

Book:The Caledonian Musical Museum: Being a Collection of the Best Songs, Ancient and Modern

Source: The Caledonian Musical Museum: Being a Collection of the Best Songs, Ancient and Modern

“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”

Firsts Heart Two Hands Found Beauty Truth Is Chiefs Prize Beautiful Women Second Chance Laborers

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

Love Beauty Eternity Mirrors Beautiful Women Gazing Unsatisfied Feeling Beautiful Beautiful Inside Beauty Within Eternity Of Life

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

Love Life Heart Truth Today Beauty Kings Yesterday Necks Bent Emperor Only Love

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.”

Heart Littles Hours Chance Beauty Sweet Empty Opening Dawn Breasts Jewels Beam Loveless

Book:Alan Seeger: the complete works

Source: Alan Seeger: the complete works

“Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.”

Ifs Lying Beauty

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.”

Heart Beauty Female Males Creator Nature Beauty Arbiter Rattlesnakes

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.”

Eye Beauty Creatures Fancy

Book:Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work

Source: Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work

“The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.”

Beauty Skins Skin Deep Beauty Is Skin Deep Beauty Skin Deep

Book:Essays--scientific, political and speculative

Source: Essays--scientific, political and speculative

“Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.”

Men Beauty Males Dancer Ballet Ballet Dancer

Author:Mordecai Richler

“The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.”

Hours Beauty Graves Former Pageant

Author:Roger Scruton

“Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.”

Beauty Regard Clouds Despise Bows Pearls Fleeting Dominion

Author:Roger Scruton

“I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.”

World Beauty Bones Forsaken

Book:In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

“You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.”

Thinking Beauty Infinite Forgiving Gods Will Indifference Never Forgive

Author:Glen Duncan

“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.”

Needs Mind Moments Would Be Running Moving Beauty Delight Stability Delightful Suspended Vertigo

Author:Anne Carson

“The queen banishes Snow White because of her beauty. But the dwarves help Snow White because they're smitten by that very beauty. It teaches kids an important lesson: Nothing matters except for your looks.”

Looks Important Matter Helping Kids White Beauty Teach Lessons Snow Queens Dwarves Her Beauty Snow White Important Lessons Nothing Matters Smitten

Author:Craig Ferguson

“When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.”

Thinking Men Beautiful Beauty Fashion Style Staff Handsome Admirer Handsome Men She Is Beautiful

Book:Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux

Source: Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux

“It is because everything must come to an end that everything is so beautiful.”

Art Ends Philosophy Beautiful Beauty History

Author:Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

“The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.”

Art Common Beauty Highest Art Is Aim Vulgar Wretched Ugliness

Book:The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature

Source: The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature

“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”

Might Turns Passion Difficult Beauty Moral Fashion Periods Elements Eternal Eternity Difficulty Determine Relative Quantity

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”

Knows Men May Soul Dream Running Lying Stars Half Beauty Worship Delight Setting Settings Wander Streams Altars Beam Ripple Gleam Afar Wands

Book:The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

Source: The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

Love May Soul Sometimes Fall Walks Beauty Loneliness Walking Solitude Hiking Being Alone Trekking Lonliness Long Walks Soul Beauty Walking Alone Walking Forward

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”

Has Beens Law Natural Secret Beauty Forever Manifestation Natural Law Secret Love Hidden Beauty

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”

Beauty Welcome Guests Cheerfulness

Book:Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust

Source: Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust

“Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.”

World Looks Mean Children Eye Beautiful Beauty Childhood Positive Perception Simplicity Very Beautiful Through The Eyes Of A Child

Author:Kailash Satyarthi